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...city. How I would feel two weeks from now, I cannot say." He suggested that the best way to help New York would be a federal guarantee of city bonds. If Congress decides to act, Burns urged that it do so quickly because "the markets do not thrive on uncertainty...
...difficult to picture a group of people who thrive on crime, stealing and mugging. But these people do exist and they cause other people not to want to be in school with them or live close to them. All the liberal teaching in the world cannot change this very obvious fact...
...first time in at least a decade, Washington has had a summer of reasonable serenity. But a number of people are not sure that they liked it, which may be one of our national problems. In politics, we have produced a generation of thrill seekers, men and women who thrive on disaster. Most of these people-fortunately for the rest of us-found that living with themselves was a big bore and went foraging in Moscow, Peking, Lisbon and Jerusalem. Those left behind in the steamy streets made more sense...
...trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump back after planting them so that you don't get poked in the eye." Today the farm is thick with healthy trees...
...other reason than that he allowed a perceptive novelist to poke around his office for a week. What Ford has over his recent predecessors is an air of confidence and "serenity." He tells Hersey that he hates "petty jealousies" among his staff worst of all, while Nixon seemed to thrive on them, and his tolerance for criticism stands cut in contrast to Johnson's vindictiveness...