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...seceded from Virginia, herself seceded from the Union of Abraham Lincoln, William Bell would be offered a commission by the Restored Government of Virginia, by his own governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite the eye he had lost in a fight that followed a poker game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity...
...other sprints out to the field. The game soon becomes tedious, however, partly because of awkward hand controls (which hamper a good skiing cartridge) and partly because not enough of baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette is fun to see once, but poor in concept, since neither game works unless money is at stake. Intellivision always puts on a handsome show, but a random sample shows that it has not yet learned to play a really good game...
...David Durenberger, a Roman Catholic, that the Pope would have voted for AWACS. Said Durenberger: "Lyndon Johnson would have talked to me about an airbase in Duluth." Reagan was "soft but firm," said Democrat Wendell Ford of Kentucky, and exuded such sincerity that "I'd hate to play poker against him." Washington Republican Slade Gorton recalled that when Reagan called to offer condolences on the death of his mother, "I kept expecting the other shoe to drop, and the conversation to turn to AWACS. But it never did. The President spent the whole 20 minutes talking about mothers...
CADETS take 40 courses, 31 of them required. They undergo rigorous physical training and live without the usual college frills of all-night poker games, late-morning snooze sessions and easy access to boyfriends and girlfriends. "It would be fair to say that a lot of the cadets look forward to the football weekend as their preeminent opportunity for socializing if not just to get off campus for a while," says Army spokesman Carnahan...
...autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual. Steaks or jambalaya are served, the joshing among old friends is ceaseless, and wagers seldom