Word: von
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crosses the Rose Garden colonnade to the Oval Office, where he greets his personal secretary, Helene von Damm, with a boast. "Look what I did last night," he says, handing her a plump folder of papers read and signed. Also awaiting him, as they do each morning, are two of his top aides, Edwin Meese and James Baker. "The only reason I'm late," says the leader of the free world, "is that I had to oil my face." Though his Secret Service code name is Rawhide, the Southern Californian is finding it difficult to adjust to central heating...
...Edward N. Brandt Jr. in Austin has gone through. Says Reagan: "I'm calling to ask if you can serve your country as Assistant Secretary of HHS for health." The conversation is a formality; the appointee has already been primed. A few minutes later, near Helene von Damm's desk in the anteroom, Personnel Director Pendleton James is wondering aloud why Reagan did not immediately make one other similar call...
...experts tend to believe the Soviets on this point and feel that they have little to fear from future cutoffs of the new pipeline. The Soviet Union is considered a far more reliable supplier of natural gas than Algeria, Nigeria, Iran and other potentially large suppliers. Said Count Otto von Lambsdorff, the West German Economics Minister: "I have complete confidence that the Soviets will fulfill their responsibilities...
...ailment, also known as von Recklinghausen's disease, usually begins in childhood and can cause skin polyps, or growths, multiple brain tumors and in some cases, mental retardation...
...when the U.S. finally got Alan Shepard into the stratosphere and down again. Kennedy flew to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to greet John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The week he was killed, J.F.K. stood beneath the first stage of the giant Saturn 1 rocket. While Wernher von Braun talked quietly into his ear of the day the monster would head toward the moon, Kennedy thrust his hands in his coat pockets, rocked back on his heels, and for a fleeting second or two in his imagination joined those voyagers far beyond earth. His eyes shone...