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...would do now to sweeten the evening's dessert for his chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange, the prices of some beverage-company shares temporarily took a dive. At many stores, weight...
...Washington's too. An incident one evening revealed what Washington senses: that Hamilton Jordan has found his place. He was sitting in his office, as usual sans tie, his feet on a table. The phone rang. It was the President asking about someone he was considering for an ambassadorship. "He's a good man," said Jordan. "But his wife has a serious problem. I may be wrong. I'll check it. Yes, sir." He hung up. He had coolly warned the President of a difficulty. The tone of his voice had never changed. His feet were still...
...HURRICANE SEASON wasn't always a party time on Fire Island. The village old-timers--whose words rang loud in the ears of everyone who stepped on the ferry that Monday morning, and even louder in the ears of those who stayed--still speak reverently of 1938. For it was on September 21 of that year that the worst natural disaster in American history sprang suddenly out of the South Atlantic, howled up the Eastern seaboard, and mercilessly devoured half our town in its churning 40-foot waves. Most who stayed for the party that time died. It wasn...
Tuesday, January 11--The alarm rang early, but had I known that the french toast at breakfast would tear as easily as a wet kleenex, I would have stayed in the room and eaten my Scotties...
Thirteen years have passed since the haunting and searching voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. rang out with those memorable words intoning his dream and his hope, "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal...