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...time campaigning for the President. Carter has split foreign policy between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Brzezinski. Until recently, whoever got in the last word often influenced Carter's decision. But Vance has declined in favor, partly because Carter seems to regard him as too mild and conciliatory toward the Soviets. Yet Brzezinski has not assumed power, for Carter mistrusts his emotionalism and theatricality. No one fills the policy void, and decisions have to be made under pressure, sometimes by men in a state of late-night exhaustion. Defense Secretary Harold Brown is regarded as a skilled technocrat...
...chief long-range forecaster, the cold arctic air was blocked, almost as if it were being held back by a great fence, letting warmer, southern air dominate the weather. For the Northeast as well as other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, Gilman's fence meant a December of mild temperatures and little snowfall...
...crisis, Chicago was helped by other factors. The relatively mild winter weather reduced the number of fires caused by temporary heating arrangements. Arsonists were reluctant to start a fire, police theorize, because under the circumstances any blaze of suspicious origins would attract unusually close scrutiny...
...willing to take the announcement as a final statement. I've seen too many statements from Iran made one day and repudiated the next," McHenry said, provoking mild laughter from the audience...
Sellers' father, Bill, was a mild, ineffectual man, a pianist whose love for Peg drew him into this demimonde, though he had once been a cathedral organist in his native Yorkshire. That he was Protestant and Peg Jewish may have contributed, some friends have speculated, to their child's confusion and detachment. Surely, Bill's shyness and Peg's aggressiveness helped to create the split in Sellers. The private man is anonymously dressed ("If you see me when I'm not making a film, you would never know I was in the business"), hiding behind a variety of tinted glasses...