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...very conscientious exerciser and one of the most versatile sportsmen ever to serve as Chief Executive. He enjoys activities ranging from bowling and swimming (he can execute an impressive one-and-a-half flip off the diving board at the Camp David pool) to fly-fishing and quail hunting. During his first 20 months in the White House, Carter tended to get most of his exercise through tennis, playing at least five times a week and teaching Rosalynn to play. He took up jogging a year ago, when he held the Middle East summit at Camp David and discovered...
...sometimes repast. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, raising funds to redo rooms and enhance the antiques in the State Department's elegant eighth-floor reception suite for foreign dignitaries, invited 177 well-heeled guests to a $1,000-a-plate dinner in Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along...
...jobs after eight years of Republican rule eliminated 115,000 posts. Admits Alan Campbell, chief of the Office of Personnel Management: "The ceilings are creating some need for reshuffling and reassigning of employees, but people can live within the limits and still perform their functions." Bureaucrats also quail at the threat of having to leave Washington. Leach would like to rusticate Energy to Colorado, Agriculture to Iowa, coincidentally Leach's home state. Says he: "This would give bureaucrats the opportunity to live under the rules they write and see firsthand the too often counterproductive efforts of a well-meaning...
...lofted a fly to deep right. The Jumbo right fielder turned over the wrong shoulder in pursuit down the field's gentle downslope toward the distant lacrosse goals and had it bounce off his glove for a double and a run batted in. Pec then came around on a quail to right by freshman center fielder Dan Skaff...
...Napoleon, who is said to have had such excruciating pain at Waterloo he could not sleep or sit on his horse. Carter's "physical injury," as he described it, was less debilitating. It only cost him, besides that one day's appointments, his daily jogging and a quail hunt...