Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a different task from following Kissinger. Talbott remembers how much Kissinger liked holding airborne seminars for reporters and taking them into his confidence. He even enjoyed arguing with correspondents. At other times, recalls Ogden, "Kissinger would come to the back of the plane, perch on your armrest, pick cocktail nuts off your tray and tell outrageous and fascinating stories about officials he dealt with-all off the record, of course...
Vance's trademark tool for efficiency is his check lists, usually scrawled on yellow legal paper. He confronts almost every meeting with a list of key questions, topics, problems, all in tight logical sequence. Andy Young recalls occasions when Vance has reached him at a party. "I'll pick up the phone and Cy will say, 'Andy, just a couple of points.' And, man, there they'll come?tick, tick, tick; one, two, three." Aides tell of meetings that Vance holds with CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who has a similar habit. "The two of them will checklist you into stupefaction...
...crucial battleground for the upcoming election, however, is likely to be newly oil-rich Scotland. With its commitment to the establishment of a Scottish assembly to deal with a wide range of Scottish matters, Labor hopes that it will pick up a large thank-you vote. In an important by-election in Glasgow last week, Labor won handily, a comforting indication that the Scottish Nationalists' bandwagon is not rolling. The Nationalists, however, have traditionally been drawn from the right, and there is always the chance they might decide to return to their Tory home. As a result, party leaders...
...amateur strippers, dozens of housewives and students applied. Despite howls of protest, including a complaint from the city's Oblate Fathers that the station was "transmitting Satan live," Telereporter's amateur strip show has proved so popular that there was a run on the antennas needed to pick up the station's broadcasting frequency...
...second half saw things change. Martin opened the scoring with his beautiful, scrambling score, and Forbush scored two minutes later on a quick pick-up-and-pop after a Martin shot rebounded off Griffin...