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...That included a string of lesbian as well as heterosexual affairs, a pregnancy and miscarriage and a bizarre episode in which she married a singer whom she had known for three weeks, then abandoned him on their wedding night. In her first eight years in England she had 29 postal addresses, not counting excursions to Europe. She compartmentalized her life, playing different roles to different people: the reckless bohemian, the exalted votary of art, the matey colonial. Paraphrasing Polonius in her journal, she wrote: "True to oneself Which self?" -Christopher Porterfield
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the shift to Carter turned into a rout. Said Postal Clerk Ray Blalock, 39, of Charlotte, N.C.: "If the election were today, most likely I'd vote for Carter, because I feel we need some continuity in foreign affairs in this crisis right now." Said David Hopkins, 36, a forklift operator in Auburn, N.Y.: "Carter seems to be getting a little more tough with the Soviets, more forceful and dynamic. I don't turn off the TV now when Carter is talking...
...dears, how William Claude Dukenfield would have chuckled over the irony surrounding his 100th birthday. To mark the date, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring the Philadelphia-born comic who soared to film fame and immortality as W.C. Fields. The postmen forgot that Fields, so pinchpenny that he could name every bank in which he had an account and estimate the interest due, had willed not only his money but his name-and the attendant publicity value-to his heirs. Thus, to print the Fields stamp, the U.S. had to pay a royalty...
...Camp David, formal diplomatic relations between the two nations were established. Ambassadors will not be exchanged for another month, although both countries have already named them: Saad Mortada will represent Egypt in Tel Aviv, and Eliahu Ben Elissar will be Israel's man in Cairo. Telephone, telex and postal links were also opened, and direct air service between Tel Aviv and Cairo is set to begin soon...
...Sadat's determination to make peace a reality. The leaders agreed that there would be an exchange of ambassadors on Feb. 26, one month after the formal establishment of relations. The Egyptians also expressed willingness to establish direct air service between Tel Aviv and Cairo, to set up postal and telecommunications links, and open the land borders between the two countries to civilian traffic. In agreeing to go ahead with these arrangements, declared a beaming Begin, Sadat had shown himself to be "a man of his word...