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When he returned to the hotel about noon, Hinckley asked the desk clerk whether he had received any telephone calls. There were no telephone messages in his key box. Then at 12:45 p.m. he sat in his room and began to write a five-paragraph letter on lined note paper. It started: "Dear Jodie, There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan." It ended: "This letter is being written an hour before I leave for the Hilton Hotel. Jodie, I'm asking you to please look into your heart...
...every other page. The room containing the printer was an antiseptic prison vibrating with the sounds of the air conditioner and the computer. Periodically the curses of a frustrated zombie rose above the hum because the printer's fragile filament got tangled or the computer swallowed a line or paragraph. The pica mechanism finally refused to work at all, and every page had to be written in tiny elite type. It was a thesis-padder's nightmare. In the terminal room, grad students, government and economics concentrators hunched over the displays, ever-conscious of the vultures peering over their shoulders...
...introducing him onto the stage; this character, listed in the program as "A Certain Gentleman," opens and closes the play, and within it follows his characters around, chatting with them, tossing knowing asides into the audience, and generally acting urbane and oh-so-witty. Ian Richardson's letter- and paragraph-perfect performance--even his pinstripes seem to have raised eyebrows--can't entirely excuse Albee's officiousness in creating such a role. It's never pleasant to be talked down to; but when there's this character on stage telling you what to pay attention to, whom to watch carefully...
Moreover, Yugoslavia did prosper during Tito's reign. And though Djilas does not credit Tito with these successes, his reasoning lacks credibility. In one paragraph he discounts the nation's economic achievements as compared with the Soviet bloc countries. Djilas says Tito's workmen's management system and all other economic programs did not help; instead, he attributes all of Yugoslavia's prosperity to its superior resources. And he doesn't even mention that Yugoslavia had 35 years of relative peace under Tito. Almost any other country would accept that kind of record...
Pipes yesterday described as "sheer and total fabrication" a paragraph in a quotation attributed to him in a New York Times column yesterday in which Pipes is reported to be proposing a State Department reorganization "which would move away from geographic subdivisions toward organizing along the lines of Communist and non-Communist states...