Word: potomac
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McElroy discussed his recent research on the Potomac River, where as much as 10 per cent of the nitrous oxide released by the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant escapes into...
Among his many other little pleasures are playing a middling game of tennis and jogging up to a mile and a half along the Potomac footpath three times a week at 6:30 a.m. He also reads voraciously and fast. Recently he has consumed the biography of Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, Menachem Begin's autobiographical White Knights and Jules Witcover's Marathon, the story of Jimmy Carter's pursuit of the presidency. Says Blumenthal: "I wanted to see how they got together...
Federal Control. How much should the other Washington, the one on the Potomac, dictate to the Northwest about how it can use its resources? Very little, says Governor Ray, again emphatically...
Salinger's transition from prankster on the Potomac to savant on the Seine was a while in the making. After Kennedy was assassinated, Salinger lost election to a Senate seat from California; bounced around a few uncongenial executive suites in the U.S., England and France; and helped manage George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. After that debacle, he fled to France, jobless. Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber immediately hired him for L'Express in 1973, shortly before the Watergate story broke. Salinger's ability to make that long and intricate crisis comprehensible to a nation...
This constant correction of course happily supplies columnists with new material to write about-and keeps their commentary from becoming sinister. Prescription for reading Potomac journalism: when they're all warmly agreed about something, discount 20% for atmospheric distortion...