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...just before 1 a.m. when the limousine pulled up before swank Maxwell's Plum. The familiar figure got out and strode towards the maitre d'. He was told the restaurant was closing. "But Muriel and I just want a bite to eat," he said. A bored look around the still-filled premises and a bored reply: "I'm sorry we're about to close." In a moment the car was speeding off into the night, its two solitary passengers disappearing behind the tinted glass...
...emotional group of 150 Palestinian Arabs who had traveled from Gaza. He made a ringing speech, saying that Egypt would never abandon them and the grateful Arabs swarmed around to embrace and kiss him. Afterwards Sadat left for his daily walk. In his blue and white sneakers, he strode along the Nile for one hour, a valuable time when he likes to think. Then he took his regular rubdown from a masseur who is also one of his bodyguards. Lunch was, as always, a bowl of soup. For nourishment during the day Sadat drinks liquids constantly: fruit juice, minted...
...distinguished chief foreign correspondent, interrupted a leave of absence to be on the scene. With the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks still eight days off, he flew into Cairo from Jordan on the night of Dec. 6. He had his passport stamped, cashed $200 in traveler's checks and strode out of the airport. About eight hours later Holden's body was found beside a road near the airport, his pockets empty, the labels ripped off his tailor-made suit and a single bullet hole in his back...
...strode into that world from the fruited plains of Velva, N. Dak., where his father, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, worked as a local banker. As a boy, Sevareid would gaze out a window of the Velva schoolhouse at vast, monotonous fields of wheat and dream of the distant cities pictured in his geography book. He escaped: to Minneapolis, where his family fled when drought hit Velva and where he went to the University of Minnesota; to Europe, where Edward R. Murrow hired him in 1939 for CBS's illustrious wartime team; to Washington, where...
When I visited Harvard during my freshman year of high school, I was impressed. Posters elbowed each other out of the way for viewing space on the jammed notice boards. People strode through the streets purposefully, hurrying off, I presumed, to hear deposed European heads of state, having just left the seminar with anti-war activists who were on the cover of Time last month. Students in the 'estaurants kept up with the latest intellectual trends by reading ponderous tomes over late morning coffee...