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...shortly after 12:33 p.m., when the first of two planes on the Tehran runway finally took off. The second, which actually bore the hostages, left five minutes later. Gary Sick, the National Security Council's chief Iran team member, relayed the word to Jimmy Carter as he rode toward Andrews Air Force Base for his flight home. James Brady, the new presidential press secretary, tapped Reagan on the shoulder as he entered the Capitol for a lunch with participants in the Inaugural ceremony and told him the news, relayed from the White House Situation Room through National Security...
...next day, he and Nancy rode in a motorcade to downtown Los Angeles for a red-carpet reception at city hall and a lunch with businessmen and other admirers at the Biltmore Hotel. Jesse Unruh, a Democrat who ran against Reagan for Governor in 1970, had an imaginative compliment. Said Unruh: "You rarely get into trouble in the political field because of your enemies. It is the most difficult part of leadership to be able to say no to your friends." That, he added, was one thing Reagan had proved himself capable of doing...
Crimson center forward Joe Carrabino rode a couple of hot shooting performances to ECAC and Ivy League player of the week honors last week. His 79 per cent shooting made him the first Harvard player in years to qualify for the NCAA
Reagan first felt that spell in 1974, during his final months as Governor, when a friend, Bill Wilson, took him to the mountain top and the two men rode horseback over the property. Reagan wanted it immediately, even though his financial advisers warned him off, and he put up $527,000 for the land and the ramshackle house (it has since tripled in value...
...represents the Vatican as the papal nuncio in Iran, was allowed to visit the Americans. He was taken blindfolded in a car on a ride so short that he assumed he was still in Tehran. So great is the mistrust in the city that even the revolutionary guards who rode along in the car also were blindfolded as they approached the secret destination. For nearly four hours, the monsignor chatted, sang and prayed with some-but not all-of the hostages...