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...that Israel is there to stay, but recognition will only be the ultimate step. "I am not giving away my cards in vain, for nothing," he said in a recent interview. "I know I have a little card, but it is the most precious card in the play, the trump card...
Take to the Airways. It worked beautifully against Jimmy Carter. When all else fails, the Republican trump card is television, as practiced by Ronald Reagan. During his 22-minute speech to the nation, the President told the American people to keep those cards and letters coming in to their Congressmen. Although the hot dogs at Camp David did not convert Maryland Democrat Beverly Byron, a thousand calls to her after the speech did. She, like so many others, went the President's way after a nudge from the voters. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported...
...ultimate Xanadu may well be the Trump Tower, now abuilding on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The top 40 floors of the 68-story building will be given over to condos, some of which will come with private swimming pools. The triplex penthouse apartment will be priced at $24 million. "They're in demand," says Developer Donald Trump. A slight understatement. The 263 apartments in Trump Tower will not be completed until January 1983, but there are already 17,000 applicants from all over the world...
...needlessly provocative" to the Soviet Union. "It smacks of bearbaiting rather than dealing seriously with the problems," Vance said. Later in the week, he charged that the arms proposals for China "virtually removed any influence we have left over the Soviet Union. We played the China card in no-trump...
...most confusing is the book's inconsistent tone. LeBaron, with his nonscientist credentials as his trump, mixes complete naivete with brutal cynicism. This is the insider who still considers himself on the outside. By the end you can't tell whether he hated his first year, or if he would recommend Harvard Medical School to someone else. He can't seem to understand why anyone beside himself would ever even want to go to Medical School...