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...sources in Washington. "He was always available," recalls Marjorie Hunter of the New York Times. "I'd call him on the House floor and he'd always come and answer questions. It's been the same during the last few months." As Vice President, Ford would stroll into the back of the plane on his frequent travels, double-olived martini in hand, and spend hours jawing with the reporters who regularly covered him. The camaraderie was strained only once, when a newcomer printed a remark about Watergate that Ford considered off the record, forcing other reporters...
...course, this is in grossly bad taste, although cynicism prompts the additional observation that taste might not matter if the book were funny. It is not. It is paranoid. Condon clearly wrote the novel to take his suspicions for a stroll, and what he suspects is that the very rich are in conspiratorial control of the country. It turns out that Keegan's billionaire father, in the Old Joe Kennedy slot, arranged with fellow oligarchs to kill his son because President Tim was showing signs of believing his own guff about helping the blacks and the poor...
...school, students lie on the floor listening to Beethoven and Wagner, learn math by playing with dice and cards, and stroll the halls in jeans and T shirts. At another, there are spelling bees, reading drills, a strict dress code-and paddlings. The two schools seem so different they could be on opposite sides of the planet. But both are located in Pasadena, Calif, (pop. 113,000), a Los Angeles suburb, and are part of a school system that offers one of the nation's most diversified educational programs...
...must recognize himself for what he is. Then he must consciously try to slow himself down. The authors advise the Type A to get up earlier in the morning to allow time for a relaxed breakfast and avoid rushing for the 8:14. He should also schedule fewer appointments, stroll in a park after lunch and take time to be alone once in a while. He might, as a macabre reminder of his mortality, even write his own obituary from time to time...
...time televised applause of broadcast executives in Houston. He startled a waitress, "Shrimp" Hamilton, by dropping in at the lunch counter of Houston's Keystone Drugstore to buy a cup of coffee and a 6-oz. jar of hot "Evangeline peppers" (leaving a $1 tip). He took a stroll downtown in that city, and paused to speak with a traffic policeman, Ignacio Aranda. He chatted with U.S. astronauts and Soviet technicians at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, lauding their courage for never "giving up," not even during dire emergencies in space...