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...over the hill. George Washington used to tarry there. Headed down the valley to breakfast with Jimmy Carter, 189 years after George, but land still beautiful in first light Mist rising over water. Sun burnishing the East. Past Teddy Roosevelt's hiking island, Lyndon Johnson's memorial pine thicket, John Kennedy's flame. Glorious city ahead in sparkling dawn. Everything looks, feels better with President acting like...
...This dance floor is going to be a real kicker!" He puffs reflectively on a corncob pipe. The moveable floor, he explains, is raised on pine two-by-fours set in an octagonal shape. The surface--1/4 in. plexiglas inlaid in 3/4 in. plywood--will have multi-colored lightbulbs forming the letter "N" underneath it to stand for "N" entryway, of course. Kasper plans to control the floor set-up with, as he puts it, "a very advanced light control system...
...took 2½ hours, beginning with a brief Carter-Begin meeting, followed by a Carter-Sadat huddle of more than an hour and a half. Sadat was unhappy at letting Begin off the hook by passing the issue to the Knesset, and Carter's aides waiting outside the President's pine-paneled study grew more and more worried. Then, at 4:30, Carter looked out the window and flashed the thumbs-up sign. They had a deal. Begin got his copies of the proposed agreements in his cabin, Birch, read them carefully and told his aides: "If this...
...earlier Indiana outbreak to an air conditioner with a bacteria-contaminated water supply. City inspectors swarmed through the district, taking water samples from air-conditioning systems, and draining and sterilizing rooftop tanks where the water was stored. Below, sanitationmen hosed down the streets and added a dash of mild pine oil to sweeten the smell...
...they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...