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LARRY POTTS, 21 Printer, Chicago...
...take long for the Algerians to relay the Iranian response to Christopher. Even as he began studying it, a copy of the four-page text was rushed by coded radio communication to the computer printer near Secretary Muskie's office on the State Department's seventh floor. Muskie, however, had just gone off to make a luncheon speech to the World Affairs Council. On his return, he read the message slowly, picked up a telephone to summarize the cable first to the President and then to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. With that, Muskie returned calmly to another...
...fact, he failed either to lower inflation or to cut the budget. Nevertheless, he topped political polls in the country as the best choice for Finance Minister. Often less appreciatively, his Cabinet colleagues jocularly referred to him as "Yigal the Printer" because of his policy of increasing the money supply as a means of keeping the economy moving...
...volumes are candidates for two librarians' awards of growing importance in the industry: the Randolph J. Caldecott Medal, named for a prominent 19th century illustrator and given "for recognition of the most distinguished American picture book for children"; and the John Newbery Medal, named after the 18th century printer and bookseller who is the "father" of children's books in English and given "for recognition of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Both awards are worth more than prestige; a dust jacket carrying a Caldecott or Newbery medallion promises a sales increase of more than...
...feet tall and about 200 pounds, Whitman's body was "rosy and soft, like a child's," and he liked "to keep a bowl of flowers by him." Kaplan illuminates the multifaceted personality of this husky and gentle man. The author depicts the 12-year-old apprentice printer in Brooklyn, the intinerant newspaperman, the Long Island country school teacher, and America's first urban poet, sharing many secrets along the way--including Whitman's taste for buckwheat cakes, beefsteak, ovsters, and strong coffee...