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...those who think the podium is where the convention takes place. Arriving at Walter Cronkite's aerie, Vice President Walter Mondale was welcomed on the air and asked to wait a moment while CBS-following its higher priorities-rolled some commercials. After a jovial exchange of banalities, the visitor usually has a self-serving point to make. This can be risky, as Gerald Ford learned in Detroit, where his appearance irritated a watching Reagan. But it was Cronkite, not Ford, who in the words of the New Republic's John Osborne, had "gratuitously and disastrously" characterized Ford...
After ten years of work, Arcosanti is only 2% finished. With reason. A visitor stopping by at sunset wonders whether the dungareed construction crew, numbering fewer than 100 and now lounging around the grounds sipping beer, could get themselves organized enough to erect a Meccano set version of the Eiffel Tower. But Arcosanti's supporters are unconcerned that the city could take anywhere from 20 to 200 years to complete, depending on finances. "Look how many hundreds of years it took to build Chartres," says Riney Bennett, 26, a Stanford-educated civil engineer. "Arcosanti will be built, but without...
...dead. Miller's Truman emerged as the most uncommon common man ever to say s.o.b. in the White House. Until, of course, Lyndon Baines Johnson. L.B. J. was, by all accounts, one of the most physically exuberant occupants of the Oval Office. He could sit a visitor down for a morning-long rundown on the intellectual capacity and personal habits of every member of the Senate. He had a grand way of picking his nose, scratching himself and eating food off other people's plates. When the Pope had difficulty opening a present that Johnson handed him, L.B.J...
...According to the dust jacket, which does not mention Krotkov's secret police background, the author enjoyed "a close personal friendship with the Pasternak family." Though such a friendship between a KGB agent and Russia's great 20th century poet seems unlikely, Krotkov was indeed a frequent visitor to the home of Pasternak after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature...
That was what no visitor to the Games could get used to-what the Soviets call poryadok, the discipline of law-and-order. No graffiti. The hiss of the spray gun is not heard in the land. And the military! During the Games, it was almost as if a vast box of soldiery had been tipped up and its contents deposited over the city. Often one saw them in odd places-militiamen standing in a clump of shrubbery or on the side of a hill, as if wherever they had landed they were obliged to stand up and assume their...