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Rather than subside, adulation of Elvis seems to mount. Caroline Kennedy, writing as a freelance reporter for Rolling Stone about the scene at Graceland before the funeral, described a conversation with Charlie Hodge, Presley's guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed...
This week the pressures will mount further when Congress returns from its recess and two committees convene almost immediately for hearings related to the Lance affair. Also due this week are the final segments of the Comptroller of the Currency's report-the document that did much to bring the heat on Lance to a boil. To reduce the heat, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared that Lance had done nothing to deserve being "run out of Government...
...Crisis was a way of life. Their families were stangers. They set up cots next to their desks so that they could be within steps of the hot-line messages that dropped into the Situation Room. Not only did Brzezinski defy tradition by going off to Maine's Mount Desert Island for a week, but when his boss was at Camp David, he played tennis on the White House court in the middle of the afternoon. Returning to his office, he sat down at his desk in his tennis gear. He buzzed for the White House photographer. When...
With the work completed, owners and dogs splashed around for the fun of it. A few continued to go through the test exercises, getting in some additional practice for the final 1977 water test next month outside Detroit. Elaine Lehr, a Mount Holly, N.J., breeder who spends an hour a day training her handsome Landseer Newfoundland, Sebastian, explained the sport's appeal: "Newfoundlands are smart with sweet dispositions. Training them isn't work. Besides, they are among the few dogs you can train to do something that still has a place in this world. As long as people...
...Mount Usu had last erupted in 1945. Since then, magma, or semimolten rock from the mantle surrounding the earth's core, had been slowly and quietly rising through cracks under the peak of the mountain, building up tremendous pressures and triggering repeated earth tremors that rocked Hokkaido. Finally, on Aug. 7, the 725-meter (2,400-ft.) Usu awakened with a roar like that of a bomb. A huge black cloud soared to a height of 12,000 meters (39,000 ft.). A dense shower of gray ash and chunks of porous, rock-like pumice poured...