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...cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues to see the movie Patton. It was the second time he had so honored me. Inspiring as the film no doubt was, I managed to escape for an hour in the middle...
...Nationwide, is cosponsoring the occupation and has been actively organizing and conducting preparation sessions around New England, especially in Massachusetts. The response has been overwhelming, almost too much for the fledgling alliance to handle. Affinity groups have sprung up at Boston University, UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, Tufts, Brandeis, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Boston State, Worcester State, and Harvard, with contingents coming in from Oberlin, Kent State, and Cincinnati. Boston high school students are also getting involved. Harvard, which was rather poorly represented at the 1977 civil disobedience action, will send five or six affinity groups to the occupation...
Those revelations last week gave the flying public another case of jitters. For the second time in four months, mechanics were searching for tiny fatigue cracks in another McDonnell Douglas aircraft, this time the DC-9. Unlike the Federal Aviation Administration's hunt for engine-pylon-mount fractures that followed the crash of a DC-10 near Chicago's O'Hare field in May, the agency this time saw no need to ground the DC-9 fleet...
Fabian will one day die, alone, and this fact torments him. He sees middle age in every mirror. When his body does fail him, his passionate courtship of polo will end. Without the opportunity to excel, without the ability to mount a pony and fly victorious across a manicured field, without all this Fabian's life need not continue. Hence, the books Fabian has written (he too is an author) warn of the dangers of horsemanship--there's no blithe extolling of the joys of riding here. Indeed, Kosinski--Fabian's creator--himself carries poison with him at all times...
...decided later); the decision to establish joint Egyptian-Israeli army patrols in the Sinai, at least until the U.S. can put together a multinational peace-keeping force; and Israel's willingness to return to Egypt ahead of schedule the monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, thereby enabling Sadat to commemorate the second anniversary of his visit to Jerusalem with a Hollywood-style extravaganza...