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...oncoming storm. "It's been 19 years since a hurricane crossed the coast," said Cecil Palmer of the National Weather Service's Houston office. "We have many newcomers who don't know what a hurricane is all about and many oldtimers who feel, 'Well, I rode it out before and I can do it again...
...they failed. But as they rode an emotional roller coaster through the Republican National Convention, some of the coolest operators in U.S. politics clung to the heady notion that they could somehow restructure the American presidency in a mere 36 hours. Even after their feverish efforts collapsed, reducing their spirits from exhilaration to a despair tinged with bitterness, political intimates of former President Gerald Ford and Republican Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan looked back wistfully at how close they felt they had come to working a strange sort of political miracle...
...tried to stamp it, or something like it, out by banning kissing. With the sexual revolution of the 1960s, herpes broke out of its confines as a venereal disease that was thought (incorrectly) to afflict only the "licentious" lower classes. Suddenly, "viruses of love" infected entire college dormitories and rode the waves of rising divorce and crumbling monogamy...
...that he rode the elephant for sport. To stay in shape, Sellers did a stint as vice-president of the London Judo Club and was never one to skip a few innings at the Marylbone Cricket Club. But soon the heart attacks started coming, the first in 1964, and then nearly every other year until Tuesday night, when his heart simply deteriorated. He slipped into a coma while lunching at the Dorchester Hotel and died four hours later...
...Reagan, Reagan's first child by Nancy, is tall, slender, graceful and very shy. When an interview was scheduled, a Reagan campaign publicity aide insisted on sitting in (apparently Nancy Reagan wanted it that way). Her boarding school, the Orme School near Phoenix, was a place where students rode horses and tended cattle, but Patti also wrote poetry. "Serious poetry," she says. "I was a very serious person." Out of school, she devoted a lot of effort to writing rock songs. One of them, I Wish You Peace, was recorded by the Eagles. For the past year...