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...President's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who did not like the way the world was running when he went to the White House, the other day rang up Henry Kissinger, one of the fellows who had put the world in the shape it was. Zbig asked Henry out to lunch at the Sans Souci, an eloquent eatery until now shunned by the Carter people. A covenant of mutual admiration was struck just a few feet from the mahogany Venus in the middle of the restaurant. Helped along by a couple of glasses of Almaden Chablis, the two former professors...
...drop-in on the White House is still being pondered for lasting significance. Such visits were never before conceived in less than months. Suddenly, Israel's Premier was at the door. Jimmy's arms were open. When the first meeting was over, Carter plunked down at his desk and rang up Anwar Sadat over in Cairo just as if he were on the phone to Plains. Carter filled in the Egyptian President on what he and Begin had discussed. Begin went off to visit his old friend Kissinger, then dropped in on the ailing Senator Hubert Humphrey. When Zbig rose...
...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...
Then the telephone rang. "Well, Mike," came the voice at the other end. "Mike, I need some help...
DIED. Colonel Jacob M. Arvey, 81, Chicago's Democratic boss in the late 1940s and kingmaker instrumental in Harry Truman's narrow 1948 presidential victory; after a series of heart attacks; in Chicago. The son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, Arvey rang doorbells for ward politicians as a teen-ager while he worked his way through law school. He became the epitome of the back-room politician, and engineered many a political career, persuading an ex-assistant to the Secretary of the Navy named Adlai Stevenson to run for the governorship of Illinois and a University of Chicago...