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...lengthy speech on Austrian history at the festivities in Vienna, Muskie fell asleep in his very prominent front-row seat. Lord Carrington tried to wake him with a jab of his elbow, but finally gave up. Not until applause rang out did the Secretary of State's head snap up and his body straighten. Muskie did not seem particularly embarrassed. In his first diplomatic venture, he had demonstrated that when necessary he can be alert indeed...
FORTY MILE per hour winds whip across the Ellipse, where Greyhound after Greyhound is disgorging Communist after Libertarian after Democratic Socialist after backpacked unaffiliate. Flags snap in the gusts--bright red banners for members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, who also carry posters bearing the face of Chairman Bob Avakian. They lockstep around the park, a march within a march. chanting "You Can Take This War and Shove It Up Your Ass, I'm Going to Fight for the Working Class." The wind spins the noise around in circles--without moving, you can hear the cries of the yellow-flag...
...here or there, most probably in Wisconsin and Oregon, and he might even mount a challenge in Reagan's home state of California. George Bush, too, vowed to fight on to the end, and he hoped to do well this week in Connecticut. But even if the underdogs snap and bite from time to time, there seems to be no way they can stop the march of delegates falling in behind Reagan and Carter...
...have compiled more than 90 years of public service-including Harriman's stints as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain and Lodge's tours as envoy to South Viet Nam and West Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile showed plenty of the old snap. He called Americans "too arrogant" about smaller nations, demanded more freedom for the CIA and lamented the end of the draft as "one of the great casualties of the Viet Nam War." He also chided his quondam Soviet hosts as barbaric "Bolsheviks" determined to subjugate the sturdy people of Afghanistan...
Salesmen at Boston's Jordan Marsh department store just before Christmas 1948 proudly touted the new cameras with the slogan "Snap it, see it." As curious customers watched in fascination, Polaroid pictures almost miraculously developed right inside the camera in one minute. Photography's professionals dismissed it as a gimmick, but Edwin Land had just founded the instant-photo industry, now a $1.2 billion business. Last week Land, 70, one of the premier tinkerers of American history, announced his retirement as chief executive officer of Polaroid amid a whirlwind of controversy. Land's departure will...