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...adulthood, America grew to like history. Not the textbook kind or the obscure Robinson Hall kind, but the kind that makes a good TV miniseries. As Barbara Tuchman '33. Gore Vidal and James Michener all know, when the truth is written well, it can be more fun--if not stranger--than fiction...
...conceived in Akron, when Bill Wilson, a stockbroker suffering from an uncontrollable drinking problem, got in touch with Surgeon Robert Holbrook Smith, a total stranger and also an alcoholic. Wilson's desperate idea: apply the buddy system to the problem of quitting. Since then A.A. has grown steadily. Participation in the organization, which defines itself simply as "a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism," has doubled over the past ten years. Explains Cathleen Willis, director of Alcoholics...
Simon herself is no stranger to injury. A call tear hampered her performances this winter and she has been troubled with leg injuries throughout her Harvard career...
...case of the White House communications director, Patrick Buchanan, was stranger still. NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb reported that at a White House meeting with Jewish leaders about Reagan's Sunday itinerary, Buchanan was seen repeatedly scribbling the phrase "succumbing to the pressure of the Jews" in his notebook. Kalb's report implied that the former conservative columnist was jotting down his own views. Buchanan, who has declined to speak openly with the press since taking his White House job in February, temporarily broke his silence to call any such implication "misleading" and "downright silly...
...Cong point-blank, also went back in 1983, though reluctantly. "I didn't think I had left anything there," he says. "I was wrong. Everything came back, but it was all off-key: Russians walking down the streets, the bars all turned into sedate coffee shops. I was a stranger in a familiar place...