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...himself so strapped for funds that he had to stop paying his campaign workers. The Senator, who had been the most glamorous politician in the U.S. and who had seemed invincible only a few months ago, suffered the kind of setback he had never known or perhaps ever expected. Seldom had such a promising campaign floundered with such astonishing swiftness...
What dismays pen and pencil makers today is that woeful writing seems to be spreading. Particularly upsetting is the poor example being set by the White House. Among recent Presidents, Richard Nixon's script was barely legible, while John Kennedy's was so erratic that he seldom signed his own name the same way twice. Though Jimmy Carter's hand is clear, it seems almost juvenile when compared with the elegant, flowing scripts of early Chief Executives like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson...
...profession of the gladhander, Sears-a man with prominent, intense blue eyes and the softening physique of a person seldom exposed to sun, wind or exercise-at times muses introspectively about his profession. Says he: "You never really win anything in politics. All you get is a chance to play for higher stakes and perform at a higher level. Even if you get elected, you've won larger responsibilities to be carried out in a more fearsome world...
...will. He does feel emotion; intimates insist that with students and his family, he weeps, laughs and even cracks jokes. In public, however, Khomeini will not permit himself to display joy, sorrow, rage or any other emotion. His angriest words are delivered in a soft, uninflected voice that seldom rises above a murmur...
...audiences have changed, so have the mechanics of auctioneering. Twenty years ago, salesrooms were decorous, dusty-and dull. They were frequented mostly by dealers or agents for anonymous collectors. Save for the hobbyist or scholar who might attend a sale of arms and armor or rare folios, amateurs seldom bid for anything; mostly they were scared away. One intimidating aspect of auctions has been the seriocomic notion that by a cough or casual gesture the unwitting onlooker may become a high-rolling bidder. Only half in jest, Louis Marion, who headed the old Parke-Bernet firm and was the father...