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That was only the beginning of his ordeal. Immediately after his confirmation last month he plunged-with no vacation-into the demanding job of administering 540 million acres of federal land (an area about five times the size of California). He worked at least ten hours a day in his office, then carried more volumes of work home to read far into the night. And he ran the 58,000-person Interior Department without a deputy, since he and the White House have not yet been able to agree on a nominee as his top assistant...
Before the leaders get to sign the declaration, they will have to endure an ordeal by rhetoric. Each leader will deliver a 20-minute speech (the time limit, like the declaration, is not enforceable), and each will listen to as many of the other speeches as he can bear...
...contact man becomes so loyal to the agency that in effect he turns into its agent. As time goes on, the congressional committees investigating the CIA will want to know more about the agency's invisible web of influence that stretches throughout Washington. The CIA's ordeal has a long, long...
...first session opened, an affable, jaunty Nixon, looking thin but fit, sat down confidently. When the final session ended the next day, Nixon rose, pale and shaken. The ordeal "took a lot out of him," said one close associate. "It was very rough." Although grand jury testimony remains secret unless it is introduced in a trial or ordered released by a judge, it is known that Nixon was questioned closely about four matters still under investigation by the special prosecutor's office...
...Night. Every so often an actor retires a role the way a sports champion retires a trophy. He does not, of course, get permanent possession of the part, but he does get a lasting grip on playgoers' memories and critics' yardsticks. His successors must always suffer the ordeal of comparison. Even long-dead actors exert their possessive prerogatives. Praise a present Hamlet and some oldtimer will tell you that "Barrymore was the greatest." In Twelfth Night, Brian Bedford retkes the Malvolio...