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...cafe fronting Rio's Copacabana, a French bureaucrat from Aerospatiale, sipping Campari and soda on the rocks, extols the virtues of the Exocet missile to a cadre of entranced Brazilian admirals. In a Persian Gulf capital, a U.S. military attache prepares a top-secret memo listing the weaknesses of the host country's armed forces. In the lobby of a Zurich hotel, a trader who arranges sales of slightly used rifles and mortars ?a "bedroom dealer" in the jargon of the trade?haggles softly with the representative of a Third World guerrilla movement...
...returned to Everett to practice law. He also became active in local politics and soon seized control of Everett's Young Democrats organization, using it in 1938 as a base to run for Snohomish County prosecutor, soundly beating the alcoholic incumbent. Two years later, after earning the nickname "Soda Pop" Jackson and a reputation as an aggressively moralistic prosecutor for running the gamblers, madams and bootleggers out of the county, Jackson easily won election to a vacant seat in the U.S. House...
...brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that takes him from the Casbah to the Caspian Sea, Buffalo to Kyoto...
...eight of the ten most populous. Democrats also gained control of eight additional state legislatures, upping their total to 36. No wonder that when one top adviser to President Gerald Ford was asked for his reaction to the election results, his response was to gulp down a bicarbonate of soda. Two other White House aides tried to come up with some heartening words for reporters, then glumly agreed on the obvious: "Just say that we took a beating...
Each year the dean's office budgets $4 per freshman for the purchase of beer and soda--but not for wine--a Yard proctor said yesterday...