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...devising, Jessel boasted friendships with five Presidents and took credit for inventing two American institutions: the celebrity "roast" and the Bloody Mary cocktail. A fixture at three decades of Hollywood funerals (he delivered eulogies), he left behind his own epitaph: "I tell you here from the shade, it is all worthwhile...
...speech came at a moment when Reagan is still doing well with the public. An Associated Press-NBC News poll indicated that 66% consider his performance overall as good or excellent, a shade better than Jimmy Carter's rating at about the same time in 1977. But Reagan is only working half-days in the Oval Office. Perhaps as a result, the Administration's foreign policy is still in some disarray. Even before a politically weakened Alexander Haig flew off to a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Rome, aides of the Secretary of State were trying...
...afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest of us are not the beneficiaries of a higher education similar to that of Birnbach et al.; we too might learn not to perspire in the shade of palm trees and tennis courts...
...Clouds without shift the shade of the light as it filters majestically down through the great blue stained-glass windows. (Twenty-three sophomores still without a club, 15 of these Jewish, 5 Merit Scholars...
...first tasks after they reach orbit will be to open the big mechanically controlled doors of the cargo bay. Besides testing the mechanism, the operation is essential for ridding the orbiter of heat from the electronic equipment. The doors will be kept ajar during much of the flight. To shade the exposed bay from the sun, Columbia will fly upside down...