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...reminding me that three hundred miles away there was a drought and people were starving. But life in the big city goes on as always. Abidjan's sidewalk cafes were full of people drinking and fending off the hordes of peddlars, who sell anything from boa constrictor skins to nose-rings, and have cousins in every port...
...Kissinger once describe former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban as "a man who cannot get into an elevator without holding a press conference"? Does the U.S. Secretary of State dislike conferences with Japanese because "they smell of fish"? Does it offend him that Syrian President Hafez Assad picks his nose during negotiations and that, when all is finally agreed upon, he "cannot be depended upon and is totally irresponsible"? Is it Kissinger's estimate of Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger that "you cannot talk to that man"? Is it true that Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev dutifully spouted...
...program. "I don't know what I've given them," he says, "but I've gotten a lot from it. Just from playing with them, wrestling with them, talking about God, our goals and responsibilities, I've found out more about myself than I could've learned with my nose in a book...
...took the frightened Rosenberg boys to live with them six months after the execution. Anne, who died last year, and Abel, now living in Miami, were the best thing that could have happened to the orphans. Abel diverted the boys with stories, inventing characters like Rocky Head, Tomato Nose and a dog named Hungry Soup Bone. He also gave them fierce support. "When the police came at night to take us to the shelter," Michael remembers, "Abel told them to come back in the morning. When they insisted, he said, 'You'll take these kids over my dead...
Blown Cover. Despite the long hair and mustaches, the original family resemblance is there. At times, Michael shares Ethel's expression of willed serenity; Robert has Julius' eyes and nose. Both have had fine educations paid for out of a trust fund set up 22 years ago by Rosenberg Defense Lawyer Emanuel Bloch. Robert has a degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Michael studied economics at Swarthmore and read history at King's College, Cambridge, where he lived in rooms above E.M. Forster. "He once complained my parties were too loud, but when I explained...