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...typewriters keep up their nervous tattoo, the telephones go on ringing, the tides of paper flow in and out. Yet the White House-and indeed all of Washington-seems to function almost in a vacuum when the President is away. Despite the jet planes, private telephone lines and teletype circuits that constantly link the L.B.J. Ranch with the West Wing, Lyndon Johnson's absence from the capital affects the Administration like a power drain. Though his six weeks' stay on the L.B.J. Ranch 1,384 miles away has not been unusually long in comparison with other presidential absences...
...rest of the fight, Clay's left fist beat a bewildering tattoo on Patterson's forehead, and Cassius punctuated each punch with cries of "Boop! Boop! Boop!" Patterson later complained that he had aggravated an old back injury. Only losers need excuses, and Floyd needed more than most. From the second round on, it was evident that Cassius could have knocked Patterson out any time he chose-and he almost did, despite himself, in the sixth round. A ripping uppercut snapped Floyd's head back and turned his legs to rubber; a left hook drove...
...government owed the crews $14 million in back pay, some of it three years overdue. In home port, after months at sea, only the officers set foot on land. Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue. Messes began with a ritual tattoo as men banged their biscuits on the table to shake loose the vermin...
Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal...
...term, dating back to a 17th century British campaign in Holland, is a corruption of a Dutch phrase meaning "turn off the taps." Before it was blown up into a musical extravaganza, the tattoo was merely the nightly drum signal beaten through the streets to shutter the bars and steer the troops back to their quarters...