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...week's end Ford stuffed his pipes and pipe cleaners, his Field & Stream tobacco and his important documents into his worn old brown briefcase with the red tag that says THE PRESIDENT. He finally shut off the endless flow of presidential paper, patted the family dog, and headed toward the Middle Kingdom, which according to legend lies somewhere between earth and heaven...
...smoked cigarettes for a while and even tried a pipe, disclosed Actress Rosemary Harris, but "I had never smoked cigars before." That is, not until she was cast as 19th century Novelist George Sand in the new public-television series Notorious Woman. Sand (née Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand...
James Schlesinger was back in a little office last week, stuffing his pipe full of Sir Walter Raleigh, quoting Heraclitus ("Character is destiny"), pondering his singular journey through the high corridors of power and his sudden descent. He had for the moment somewhat the look of a trapped creature, with the low ceiling of the office at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies pressing down...
Bossert said his newness to the job may have caused part of the delay because he was unsure who to contact about fixing the pipe...
BOMB INGREDIENTS. There were five cans of gunpowder, lengths of pipe, lantern-type batteries, copper wire, five alarm clocks and blasting caps...