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...breaks, he will type until what he calls "beer o'clock" -- about 5 p.m. He has been known to work into the night. The output is some ten pages a day, although with a Wang computer, "the sky's the limit." Before him lies a handful of works in progress. There is the second installment of a five-story science-fantasy cycle, The Dark Tower, featuring Roland, the Last Gunslinger, on the track of his grail. Then there is the uncut version of The Stand. Then there are plans to study French in order to finish Livre Noir, a detective...
...mission and Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.S. headquarters. There was maddeningly incomplete information. From Shultz: "It's under discussion. It isn't settled yet." From Shevardnadze: "Yes, yes, yes. It is a possibility." From a Soviet spokesman in Moscow, there was even a triple negative: "We do not see progress, but we do not believe such questions cannot be solved...
...longer meets "state-of-the-art" conservation standards. Anxious to verify this, I inquired of Museum officials and was informed that "it was not permitted" for them to discuss matters pertaining to the Museum's closure. Well, far be it from me to impede the inexorable march of progress; but I can't help wondering just who (aside from those administrators who are slated to take over the building) stands to gain from the transferal of the Busch-Reisinger's collection to some underground vault. Granted, the stuff will probably last forever down there; yet is that what the Museum...
...Opportunity, Jon, that's what makes this country great," Bob told me. "That's what Jack Kemp is all about. He understands that America doesn't have to retrench; we have to progress. There is no limit to growth as long as we believe in our own potential and this great land of ours...
Still, Reagan insisted on confining the 45-minute discussion to the Daniloff case, which Shultz pronounced a "cloud hanging over" any chance for progress between the two nations. Although neither side budged on the Daniloff issue, Shultz and his counterpart were nevertheless surprisingly upbeat about the results of their two-day talks. "Quite a few items that seemed insoluble a year ago are now working themselves out," Shultz said after the meetings ended Saturday. He cited strategic arms and "especially" intermediate-range missiles based in Europe as the most promising areas for agreement. For his part, Shevardnadze implied that...