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...building-I wonder if it will stand up"). If the skies are fair, he may be in the fields, helping with the shearing. He loves to fall back on a pile of just-shorn wool, burrow down in it, enjoy the aroma, turn his face up and feel the tang of the air, the strength...
...person al expenses for food (about $800 a month) and entertainment of private guests (including overtime paid to White House servants) also come out of his $1 1,250-per-month income. The same is true of vacations and insurance, taxes and upkeep on the Fords' 1971 Mus tang, two Jeeps, and residences in Alexandria, Va., Vail, Colo., and Grand Rapids - all of which add up to an eminently comfortable lifestyle...
...other Ford aides finished, Mao walked a few steps to the center of a semicircle of chairs and was helped back down by his nurse. Those who remained for the business meetings were directed to the proper chairs. On Mao's right was his interpreter, American-born Nancy Tang; next on the right was Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who chain-smoked through the meeting. The other Chinese were on Teng's right...
...rested his head back against his chair and when he talked, he would roll it toward his interpreter and speak directly at her instead of at the Americans. She listened and watched his lips closely. His difficulty in forming words is apparently the result of strokes. Sometimes Miss Tang did not understand what Mao said. She would repeat the sentence and he would nod if she got it right. Other times she had to write the words down and show them to Mao for verification...
...authenticity of the canoe builder is also undeniable. Henri Armand Vaillancourt is a 25-year-old bachelor who lives in Greenville, N.H., and thinks and talks exclusively about canoes. Refreshingly un-Thoreauvian, he prefers Tang to spring water when eating his homemade beef jerky. Vaillancourt is one of the last men in North America to make canoes the way the Eastern forest Indians made them. He is not only the keeper of an art but also an endangered species of American. In his " own beautifully crafted work, McPhee | treats both man and boat with all the respect and admiration their...