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...biggest reporting problem Ungeheuer had was holding back the flow of Pickens' Texas yarns, usually told with full sound effects and gestures. "To Pickens a question was like a match put to tinder," Ungeheuer says. "Asking about a financial arrangement would elicit an anecdote about a nouveau riche Texan and his interior decorator, and then other stories. It was hard to lead the conversation back to the answers I needed." Ungeheuer's dispatches, anecdotes and all, went to Associate Editor John Greenwald, who wrote the cover story with assistance from Reporter-Researchers Lawrence Mondi and Richard Bruns...
...knowledge, never before my confirmation had there been hearings so openly conducted on ideological grounds rather than merely political ones. For some men there is a high emotive content in terms that apply to me: soldier, Republican, conservative, patriot. Add to that tinder the burning issues of Watergate, Viet Nam, Cambodia, wiretaps, the CIA, Chile, and you have the makings of a pretty hot time...
...rationalize these questions and concerns with the explanation that the Middle East is the world's tinder box the one area that could ignite a global war and that our involvement there is essential to prevent it's Certainly, the Soviets can't be overjoyed with our presence. They too have interests in the region--devious though they...
...unions were in effect directing a challenge at the heart of the Communist system itself. "This is absolute foolhardiness," said a worried East bloc specialist in Bonn. "This goes against Walesa's assurances that Solidarity's purpose was more economic than political. It adds to the tinder...
With local variations, the same sorry pattern exists in most of America's larger cities. While Atlanta still boasts that it is "a city too busy to hate" and racial friction seems mild, there is tinder in the deterioration of its public housing. About 50,000 blacks occupy such buildings, which are heavily rat infested. City officials have detected some 10,000 housing code violations in just one project...