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Reporting for this week's cover story on Dick Cavett, Correspondent Carey Winfrey found himself in an unusual position for a journalist. "Cavett was so pleasant," says Winfrey, "that it actually got to the point where I felt guilty for eating up what little spare time he had." En route to Montauk, Long Island, for a weekend at Cavett's country home, Winfrey discovered that Cavett takes advantage of every moment. Driving his station wagon northward along Route 27, the performer managed to catch his own show by taking sidelong glances at the portable TV balanced precariously...
...politer, more relaxed, and more interested in men and ideas, whereas Cambridge is full of professors who are so busy trying to change the world, advertise themselves and endure their students that they have no time for people. What is more, many a man who was an ordinary, pleasant person in Washington turns into an instant Cambridgean upon receiving a faculty appointment...
Beyond the fact that they do not taste like real wine, pop wines have much in common: they are cheap at about $1 a bottle, and their alcohol content is a minimal 11% or so. Another advantage: they add a pleasant extra dimension to the effects...
...railing at the pasteboard void, Rosen also admits to having learned to play its games with a real sense of bravura. Gassed on the streets of Chicago during the '68 demonstrations, Rosen's mind flashes from childhood memories of cajoling his parent's friends with smiles and jokes and pleasant words to playing the martyr scenes for the sake of the familiar suburban mother-type behind the oversized wheel of the Camaro before which he stumbles in temporary confusion. "I am so accustomed to my mastery of mothers that this sudden and irritating turn of events unnerves me," he admits...
...Pleasant St. site is one of over 50 buildings the women considered. "We had to make a quick decision to buy over the Mayday weekend, just after the house came on the market." Jane, one of the women active in fund-raising, said...