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...Manhattan courtroom. Suddenly it was last summer again, except that this time the man he accused-former Attorney General John Mitchell-was seated 20 ft. away from him. Every detail of Dean's testimony evoked his riveting appearance at the Senate's Watergate hearings -the poker face, the pursed lips, the flat, unemotional voice naming names, dates, places, building a case against the man whom he had once described as his "father figure." Mitchell had been Dean's boss at the Department of Justice, and Dean admitted freely that he was known as "Mitchell...
Once he begins negotiations, the particular Kissinger mystique begins to operate, and that in itself is almost a harbinger of success. Wit and humor are key weapons. After many years of conferences and confrontations, he has even relaxed poker-faced Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to the point that they can kid each other about the recording devices hidden in rooms they are using...
...story by a middle-aged writer who is still honestly concerned about the roots of manhood in a narrow yet undeniably powerful form. He takes calculated risks by flying over V.C.-controlled territory and touring surrounded South Vietnamese-held villages. He proves himself to himself by taking $340 in poker winnings from a group of majors and colonels. The novelist's eye turns outward as well, providing excellent descriptions of landscapes and cities...
...have little else to do, it is not only a rewarding sport-state and federal authorities estimate that ice anglers in the Northeast and Midwest catch at least as many fish each year as traditional fishermem-but a welcome weekend escape into a predominantly male world of tall tales poker and six-pack camaraderie. Each February, when the ice grows thick enough on lakes in the Northern states whole towns of ice-fishing shacks spring up, complete with telephones, electricity and posted roads-the exurbia-on-ice a Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago had a population of 30,000 last...
...largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish bites. One Midwestern fisherman has trained a dog to rally round the flag and bark whenever it goes up, thus allowing its owner to concentrate on his poker game...