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GREEN THOUGHTS. Air conditioning is the second-best weapon against the equatorial heat of the city. The best is a walk on the mild side-in the vest-pocket parks (among the most refreshing: Paley Park, a few steps east of Fifth Ave. at 53rd St.; Greenacre Park, 212 E. 51st St.; McGraw Hill Park, 48th St. west of Sixth Ave.), ambling across the footpaths of the 59th Street, Triboro and Brooklyn bridges, or riding one of the shaky, alpine cable cars that wobble across the length of the Bronx...
Only his habit of chain smoking suggests the fierceness within. Outwardly, "B.C." is mild-mannered and looks a bit professorial behind gold-rimmed spectacles. He clearly enjoys wealth. His home is a palatial retreat 25 miles south of Seoul, set amid 1,200 acres of landscaped gardens and lawns where peacocks strut. Lee also has a world famous collection of ancient Korean pottery and -the ultimate sign of luxury-a fine disdain for the Korean chore of entertaining visiting businessmen. His greatest pleasure, he says, comes in meeting "the challenge" of making money...
...proposed reforms were mild enough, but they stirred a row when they were presented to the Democratic caucus. The main opposition came from Hays' old friends and allies, who argued, rather lamely, that the consolidated accounts would become a "slush fund" so offensive to the voters that the majority Democrats would all be thrown out of office. Among those who pointed with alarm was South Carolina's Mendel Davis, who once kept Liz Ray on his payroll as a favor to Hays. Other Democrats, mainly Southerners with safe seats, fought against tightening a system that handed...
...epidemics. The disease is extremely contagious, often fatal, and there is no known cure. But there is a highly controversial and dangerous treatment: inoculation. This consists of placing pus from a blister on an infected person directly into the bloodstream of a healthy one. In theory, this causes a mild form of the disease and therefore protects the inoculated person from ever catching it again. But because of the dangers, not only to the person being inoculated but to others who risk contagion, the treatment is prohibited in many colonies...
Turning southwest, they cross the Continental Divide, push past gaudy Las Vegas and climb the Sierra Nevadas, pausing at Donner Pass. Here, explains Twain, whose lecturing is becoming a mild irritant, a wagon train, led by George and Jacob Donner in the winter of 1846-47, became trapped in a fierce snowstorm. Several members of the party died, whereupon the survivors proceeded to cannibalize the dead. Twain, having now discovered the credit-card culture, suggests that this event gave rise to the Donner's Club. Trollope is puzzled. "Is that like Carte Blanche?" Dickens, who has been dozing, starts...