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Indoors in the kitchen, the Oests' pretty daughter Laura, 8, entertains a school chum. "This is my survival knife," she says, deftly slipping a 14-in. knife from its canvas sheath...
...empty nighttime streets, circling the illuminated monuments of Washington. In the back seat, a clean-cut naval officer and a dark-haired beauty stare at each other a moment. Then they kiss, furiously. She flings herself on him. He gropes for the zipper of her strapless black-and-gold sheath. There is a flash of a man's hand on a creamy thigh, the pull of a black garter. Afterward, the officer and his friend relax into opposite corners of the limo and survey the damage. "My name is Tom," he says with a smile to end all smiles...
...With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...
...tiny radio transmitter in a 1982 black Jaguar used by "Tony Ducks" Corallo. In a parking lot outside a restaurant in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, one agent carefully opened a door, pressing the switch that would otherwise turn on the interior lights. Another helped him spread a plastic sheath over the seats so that rain would not spot the upholstery. With a stopwatch at hand, they quickly removed the dashboard, installed the bug, replaced the dash and closed the car door. The operation took 15 minutes...
...When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best Man John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister a kiss. Jackie, wearing a fitted, pale lime green sheath, bit her lip and struggled to hold back tears as she walked out of the church on the arm of Uncle Ted. He has walked other nieces down other aisles, and his avuncular presence is depended upon and appreciated. Still, one can safely guess that the old Kennedy New Frontiersmen...