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...Miami-to-Chicago plane one day last week, Basil Walters, executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, hunched over a cream-colored sheet of hotel stationery, cautiously shielding what he wrote from the eyes of the stranger sitting beside him. "Stuffy"' Walters had a secret...
...Window. That afternoon, in chill, gusty weather, he slipped out of the embassy unannounced for a two-hour, three-mile stroll. State Department security men had to hustle to catch up, and got several sharp jolts. Seemingly a stranger to red lights, Mikoyan blithely walked across streets against traffic, brought cars to a screaming halt. On Fifteenth Street, a block from the White House, a heavy gust toppled a street light a few feet from Mikoyan, showering glass splinters around...
...corridors are somewhat analogous to the canals of Venice. They become alternately wide and narrow as they wind. They lower a few steps, then rise a few steps. They give way to an immense hall when one least expects it, and to a glass-encased balcony which is still stranger and more intruiging...
...Racimo is a promising piano student (at Manhattan's Juilliard School) of Filipino-English origin. Mary Huie, of Chinese origin, was working as a clerk for Revlon when a scout spotted her on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue (she thought she was facing an attempted pickup when the stranger approached her with: "How would you like to be in a Broadway show...
...suppose that clear thinking involves not only articulation but coming to the right conclusion, the colleges appear less effective. Despite their vocabulary and their information and their sophistication, college graduates regularly come to diametrically opposed conclusions about matters as various as politics and juvenile delinquency. Even stranger, these conclusions are usually identical in both content and rigidity with the less coherent and logical views of our intelligent garage mechanic. The range of topics on which alumni are competent to talk dispassionately rarely exceeds the number of subjects which he has studied with dispassionate scholars...