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...first, Taiwan's leaders, including Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, 67, Chiang's son, hoped that Carter might stall the U.S. rapprochement with Peking. The Communist regime, they figured, would not measure up to Carter's human rights standards. But that thin hope was dashed in June, when Secretary of State Vance declared in a speech that Washington was determined to speed up the rapprochement with Peking-and did not mention Taiwan...
...romancing"-but in an amiable way, like a man on his third drink who suddenly falls in love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...
When Chairman Daniel Haughton and President A. Carl Kotchian were forced to resign last year at the height of the payments scandal, Lockheed seemed likely to stall like a disabled jet. That it did not is due largely to Robert Haack, former president of the New York Stock...
...Carew-and Carew's bat so valuable to the Twins -that a locked closet next to the clubhouse sauna is reserved for his lumber. The heat of the sauna "bakes out the bad wood," as Carew phrases it. He also keeps a supply of bats in his locker stall, safely distant from the communal bin in the tunnel leading to the dugout. "I see guys bang their bats against the dugout steps after they make an out. That bruises them, makes them weaker. I couldn't do that. I baby my bats, treat them like my kids, because...
...ample. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: excellent. Lounges pleasant and comfortable. Good coffee shop open until 7:30 p.m. (beef tacos, $2.50); crowded self-service cafeteria. Best restaurant: Crossroads West. Six bars, most open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Shopping facilities: offbeat. Western and Indian wares. Spanish shop, flower stall with fresh-cut Colorado varieties. One barbershop. Private changing rooms with basins and toilets. Extra-long lockers and free plastic bags for skis. First-aid station; 24-hr, ambulance. Overall: pleasantly oldfashioned...