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Ideally, a summit should produce some formal, leather-bound outcome, like the SALT I treaty that Richard Nixon brought home from his Moscow meeting with Leonid Brezhnev. A summit represents high history, the great encounter above the tree line. It sometimes excites almost sacramental expectations. Geneva produced neither great treaties nor triumphant rhetoric. The gray prose in use for such occasions reported that "the meetings were frank and useful. Serious differences remain." If Geneva represented anything, it was the triumph of candor and realism. No one got carried away...
...direction (by Jeannot Szwarc, who doesn't) is in a style that could be called International Mystical. Moore does an excruciatingly ingratiating Shirley Temple impression; as Santa, David Huddleston (Bad Company) says ho ho ho a lot, apparently at knife point; stalwart John Lithgow is amusing as a Nixon-like baron of the toy industry who figures to capitalize on gift giving by establishing a new holiday on March 25: Christmas II. There is little likelihood of a Santa Claus II, forcing the Salkinds to turn to the Easter Bunny or Guy Fawkes...
...Reagan led the 9 p.m. news. His appearance was not billed in advance, but the Soviet audience may have reached 150 million. For them, it was a mild shock, certainly a rarity. The last time a U.S. President had come on, eyeball to lens, was in 1972, when Richard Nixon appeared. Reagan, the Great Communicator, made his plea "to try to reduce the suspicions and mistrust between us," then tried a little shaky Russian: "Let us look forward to a future of chistoye nyebo [clear sky] for all mankind...
...final reckoning yielded Lehman's 72 partners sums ranging from nearly $ 1 million for the most junior to $10 million-plus for the top echelon. This gilded dissolution followed months of infighting that had effectively deposed two chief executives of the firm. The first was a former Nixon Cabinet member with a Greek immigrant background but Wasp manners and connections; the other was a company insider who throughout his life, even at this Jewish-founded firm, believed himself a victim of anti-Semitism...
...York Times in the 1950s, he became a speech writer for 1960 Presidential Candidate John Kennedy and in 1963 launched his thrice-weekly column. The globe-trotting, indefatigable Kraft wrote with erudite assurance, whether on the Middle East or Middle America. Once a staunch liberal who made Richard Nixon's enemies list, Kraft later took a more conservative tack, never losing his disdain for sloppy thinking or pat reasoning...