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...91st anniversary of his birth, a sheaf of chrysanthemums with a card "From Clemmie" was laid on the grave of Sir Winston Churchill in St. Martin's churchyard in Bladon, not far from Blenheim Palace, where he was born...
...does so with less trepidation than anyone whose initials are not L.B.J. When the President got to talking at a recent luncheon, it looked as if he would ramble on until dusk. Moyers edged out of his chair, hovered pointedly at the President's elbow, thumbing through a sheaf of top-secret State Department papers. Finally he announced: "We are cutting into the President's nap time. It is really time to go." End of lunch...
...dozen Senators on hand to take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After four days of desultory debate, it was all over. Medicare, once the most controversial domestic issue in the U.S., breezed through the Senate like nothing worse than a mild cold. The final vote...
Baruch devoted his last years to his memoirs, to the philanthropies into which his father had steered him-colleges, medical schools and rehabilitation projects-and to gathering a generous sheaf of awards and honors. "To me," he was fond of saying, "old age is 15 years older than I am." In the end, the irrepressible Bernard Baruch finally caught up with...
...likable novel about the last days of British rule in Africa. Novelist Fowler's main character is a British civil servant named Wood, and the book consists of two sets of his recollections-those from the beginning of his colonial career in the 1930s, and a sharply contrasting sheaf of observations made 30 years later as the colony in which he is stationed clamors for independence...