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...gone better "than we had any right to expect." According to the Defense Department, 1,373 Americans and 5,680 South Vietnamese-many more than the U.S. had originally intended-had been removed. Another 32,000 desperate Vietnamese had managed to make their way by sampan, raft and rowboat to the U.S. ships offshore, bringing to about 70,000 the number evacuated through the week...
...work down with them. A number of pieces in Guilty Pleasures are predicated on Richard Nixon, and their bite has already become gummy. One of the book's funnier stories (An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware) overcomes this loss through shameless slapstick. George Washington postpones his rowboat crossing until hearing whether Congress will continue to finance his personal extravagances. Speaking in an age when the printed s looked like an f, an aide informs the general that demands for his horse's accommodations have been rejected: "Both the Houfe Appropriation Committee and the Horfe Appropriation Committee...
...with messages of encouragement from President Ford, 61, and California's Governor Reagan, 63, Jack celebrated his 60th birthday by swimming 1½ miles across San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf-handcuffed, his feet chained together, and towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. After 80 minutes of diving through the bay like a clumsy dolphin, Jack landed at the Wharf, blue with cold. Rushed to a nearby sauna for defrosting, he emerged to the cheers of fans and promptly fell to the ground, only to do ten brisk pushups. Then...
...Street Station look like molish members of a dust-filled underworld. The train pulls out into a complex of electric power lines, intricately crossing tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond set among grassy walkways and elaborate shubbery. To the left stand weather-beaten houses crushed together on littered asphalt streets. A middle-aged woman stands in her musty living room, the wallpaper peeling and the rug spotted with stains. She buttons the coat...
...Saybrook boats sit lazily in a sheltered marina while ducks congregate on a small sand island. The tracks open up onto a large body of water, where a group of three men sit quietly in a rowboat, their fishing poles resting on the sides of the boat. A sign at the entrance to Pawtucket, Conn. announces that it is "A Good Place to Live, Work, or Play." A woman walks into Ted's laundromat. A passing truck hauls steel canoes...