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That night, after dining privately with a small group of potential backers at a Holiday Inn, Carter took commercial flights to Washington and then on to Atlanta. Finally, by a chartered twin-engine Cessna, he flew 110 miles south to Americus and drove to his home town of Plains, arriving at nearly 2 a.m. He had been going for almost 20 hours. Wife Rosalynn had returned to Plains only a few hours earlier, having completed a separate campaign swing of her own to Kentucky. As he fell into bed that night. Jimmy Carter might have been forgiven...
...Twin Temptations. More broadly, Kissinger protested that his policies were under fire from both the political left and right, and claimed that this double attack could result in a U.S. foreign policy "paralysis, no matter who wins in November." He explained: "If one group of critics undermines arms-control negotiations and cuts off the prospect of more constructive ties with the Soviet Union, while another group cuts away at our defense budgets and intelligence services and thwarts American resistance to Soviet adventurism, both combined will, whether they have intended it or not, end by wrecking the nation's ability...
...offense intended, though. As a peace gesture the bartender gave me a story along with my Bud. "Six or seven years ago it was," he said, "I bet four bucks on the twin daily double at Rockingham. It came through, only for eleven dollars. Eleven goddam dollars! I know a guy who won five grand on a four-horse birdcage." Al said he was so disgusted he just tore the tickets...
...destroyed by affirmative action's systems of goals and timetables. Writers like Paul Seabury and Alexander Bickel, complained that affirmative action represented the abandonment of the supposedly American value: "to each according to his ability." But running subtlely through the more learned arguments and less subtlely in others, were twin elements: fear and anger...
During his halcyon years, Bailey's annual income was clearly healthy though?enough to satisfy his addiction to flight and gadgetry with such items as a twin-engine Turbo Commander turboprop and a Beechcraft. He also keeps a helicopter, built by his own company (Enstrom Corp. of Michigan), on his 78½-acre spread in Marshfield, Mass., 30 miles south of Boston. His 17-room house there is equipped with indoor and outdoor swimming pools and nearly every form of 20th century electronic communication short of his own hot line to Moscow. The gray-carpeted lair in his office in Boston...