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...self-contained tent communities. "An SA3 site," says a Western diplomat, "comes with cooks, bottle washers, the lot." Occasionally an Egyptian might glimpse a busload of Russians visiting the pyramids, or see a group of beefy, fair-skinned workers at Agomy beach west of Alexandria. To one recent British visitor, however, Cairo is beginning to look like Moscow-on-the-Nile. "My God," he complained, "even the shopkeepers assume you speak Russian." At the Gezira Sporting Club, once a famous British watering spot, he observed a number of Russians as well as East Germans and Czechs "lying around the pool...
...picnics on the moors and sunning at Brighton. This year, England's soccer team is defending its world championship in the tourney at Mexico City, and many voters seem far more interested in what happens there than in the June 18 vote. "I get the feeling," said a visitor, "that the two leading candidates are Bobby Moore and Nijinsky [England's soccer captain and the Epsom Derby winner, respectively...
...substantial sum of $75,000 that his Revolution for the Hell of It and Woodstock Nation have netted him in royalties and film rights, Hoffman has been able to overcome his embarrassment enough to start two more books. When Publisher Bennett Cerf of Random House took a lady visitor to meet his son, Editor Christopher Cerf, he sauntered unannounced into Christopher's office to find Hoffman slouched shirtless at the desk, scribbling away. "That's not my son!" exclaimed Cerf hastily. Said Hoffman...
...British visitor to the White House was "shaken" to learn that her compatriots had burned the place down during the War of 1812. "I'd heard of 1812, but I thought it was an overture by Tchaikovsky," said Mrs. Edward Armitage, wife of Britain's Controller General of the Patent Office. Turning to Pat Nixon, she added, "I'm sorry they did it. It was nothing between you and me." Soothed Pat: "I know you wouldn...
...screening is arduous, however. While Lyndon Johnson proudly showed visitors his 60-button telephone console, Nixon has just three direct lines?to Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Kissinger. Only four Cabinet members can count on getting through to Nixon at any time: Mitchell, of course, and Secretary of State William Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Labor Secretary George Shultz. Every program proposal is "staffed out," since Nixon dislikes to be unprepared when a visitor springs an idea on him. Haldeman supplies him with dossiers on everyone he is to see each day. In the competition for Nixon's attention, many ideas...