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...raise unemployment" and "make unilateral and unwise concessions to the Soviet Union." In fact, they were so eager to be roused that they would not allow Reagan to complete one of his punch lines. Saying that he was tempted to compare Democratic spending habits to those of a drunken sailor, Reagan said, "But that would be unfair to drunken sailors." The audience erupted in laughter before he added, "Because the sailors are spending their own money." Another interruption occurred when Reagan paraphrased Will Rogers and accused the Democrats of never meeting "a tax they didn't like." The President...
...gold medals and four silvers, followed by the Canadians and the New Zealanders, who sailed away with three medals each. The men at the helms of these swift, finicky craft needed the cunning of a chess player, the agility of a gymnast. And experience counted too. The most weathered sailor was Denmark's Paul Elvstrom, 59, career winner of four Olympic gold medals, whose daughter Trine served as crew. With Trine flying on the boat-stabilizing trapeze, the gray-bearded Elvstrom raced to a fourth-place finish in the Tornado catamaran class. The U.S. had its own old salt...
...valiant Allies. Thousands of English families opened their homes to American servicemen, who responded with equal generosity. Glen Brimblecombe of Ilsington in Devon recalls that as a child "I wanted a bicycle for Christmas. Very selfish, I know now, for Mum could not afford it. Mac, an American sailor from Stover Camp, whom I can still remember, appeared on Christmas morning with a brand-new Elswick bicycle...
...contemplation of this act, and the decision to go through with it, that provides Talmage with the framework for his play. Perhaps despairing of handling the glittering literary cast that thronged through his characters' lives, the playwright turns everyone from Virginia Woolf to Carrington's sailor-lover into throwaway lines. As a theatrical contrivance this works amusingly. But it is one thing to simplify, for dramatic convenience, the structure of historical lives and quite another to oversimplify their emotional tenor. In Talmage's hands, the brilliant Strachey becomes a fussy queen; the dangerously unstable Carrington, a ditsy...
Colleagues describe Long as a highly disciplined leader but also a "reflective and pragmatic" man who kept an eye on political developments. One of his few friends is House Speaker Tip O'Neill. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Michael Mansfield once referred to Long as "that sailor-diplomat...