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Though the dancers, for the most part, last the full twelve hours, they are given five minute breaks on the hour and a half hour dinner break. "As long as they stand and sway [they're] still in the contest," said O'Brien. The dancer that brings in the most pledges wins a trip for two to the Bahamas...
Alumni also get into the act of trying to sway admissions officials. "You have to hope that the Admissions Committee is strong," Reardon says. "I've never seen undue influence that is outrageous. But it is a subjective process...
...argument did not sway Gottlieb, who lunched next day with Shawn at the Algonquin Hotel, the fabled watering hole of such bygone New Yorker wits as Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. The two men had never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...
Kimche warned from the start that the Iranians sooner or later would ask for arms. Any faction that came to power would first have to develop a constituency in the Iranian military and Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards, and weapons were the only currency likely to sway them. At the same time, said Kimche, the Iranians thought they could prevail on Muslim fanatics in Lebanon to release American hostages. In fact, said Kimche, the Iranians had outlined to him three separate arrangements under which the hostages might be set free...
Kimche phoned McFarlane again on July 30 to set up another visit to Washington. He arrived Aug. 2 with some disquieting news: his Iranian contacts had lost confidence in their ability to sway the Lebanese extremists; getting the American hostages released would not be so easy. At the same time, the Iranians were worried about their own vulnerability; they needed arms to cement their position. McFarlane was uneasy about the idea of shipping U.S. arms to people the American government had no contact with except through Kimche. Well, Kimche replied, suppose Israel shipped the arms and asked...