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...comfortable apartments reserved for ABC television people on the sixth floor of the new press living quarters were all ready???comfortable is what you get if you pay $91.5 million of the $140 million budgeted to put on the Games, which is what ABC did?but the elevator that was supposed to reach them was not working. It was almost impossible to make a transatlantic phone call unless you could explain your needs in Serbo-Croatian. Hotel cashiers prudently refused to accept payment in anything but dinars...
postprimary phone call to Reagan: "Ron, congratulations, sir. You beat the hell out of me." How did Reagan do it? Bush's strategists were ready???after the vote?with a barrage of excuses. For one thing, the exhausted Bush flew home to Houston the weekend before the vote, while Reagan campaigned to the bitter end. Thus New Hampshire television viewers on Sunday and Monday saw pictures of Bush resting beside his Texas swimming pool while Reagan was doggedly plowing through chilled New Hampshire crowds?an odd contrast for a campaign in which Reagan's age was supposed...
...forthrightness did not sit well with Vice President Agnew or even, at first, with members of his own commission. But they have listened to his ideas. What is more, he is ready???often, it seems, before he is asked?to counsel the White House on anything he believes germane to the problems of American youth, from the legalization of marijuana to the war in Viet...
Berkeley's Historian Carl Schorske, 51, never lectures before 11 a.m. because he wants two or three hours to get ready???and he still gets butterflies. "But if you have no tension," he says, "there's no spring. You must go in there with tension, and you should end up feeling worn out." Once onstage, Schorske gestures, grins, whispers, employs the full range of a booming baritone voice. He covers three centuries of European intellectual history in his most popular course, shifts spontaneously to suit the mood of his audience ("It's almost a cabaret thing") as he explores Locke...
...prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room six or eight newshawks stood in a chalked square, waiting. Finally Mr. Callander emerged, placed mimeographed copies of his mystical figures face downward on tables with telephones, and, full of excitement, cried, "Get ready???go!" The newshawks leaped to the telephone tables...