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Richard G. Darman '64, an aide to President Reagan on leave from the Kennedy School of Government, received a promotion and a pay hike this week as part of a White House staff shake...
...time the plague had run its course 259 of the 350 villagers had died. One of the last victims was Mompesson's wife Catherine. Assuming he was also destined to die, he wrote a farewell letter: "I thank God, I am content to shake hands with all the world, and I have many comfortable assurances that God will accept me." To avoid contamination, he dictated the letter by shouting on the moor to a visiting clergyman. Mompesson did not die. Three years after the plague subsided, he was reassigned to the village of Eakring, where the residents at first...
...also affectionately known as Donald Duck). His penitential immersion was shared by a voluptuous model done up as a mermaid. Since he was the target of an assassination attempt by a deranged citizen in 1976, Schaefer has been dogged by security guards; his daily delight is to shake them...
Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
...offer. Although it raised its bid from $90 to $105, and finally last week to $115 and $120 per share, Mobil's proposal was conditional on its obtaining 51% of Conoco's shares. Mobil also had a severe handicap because it was never able to shake the fear that the Justice Department would block the merger of two oil companies on antitrust grounds...