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George Shultz is a golfer, not a sailor, but he likes to describe his practice as an economic manager in nautical terms. A confirmed free-marketeer in an Administration whose economic policies blow hither and yon, Shultz learned to become a master tacker, but he never really learned to like it. Last week, after 22 tiring months as Treasury Secretary and more than five years in top economic posts, Shultz announced that he will resign and leave the Government...
...becomes Acting President. Long known as a preacher of puritanism. Agnew starts a major campaign against pornography and prostitution, but eventually is himself drawn into criminal conduct. Nixon meanwhile, instead of skipping the country, takes a leaf from G. Gordon Liddy, dons a disguise, and travels around hither and yon, eavesdropping and generally keeping the citizenry under secret surveillance. When things reach an impasse. Nixon whips off his wig and moustache, reveals himself to the nation, and, issuing a few executive decrees, smilingly sets things aright, though dark clouds can be seen on the horizon...
Runyon led the 'Cliffe with 15 points and Charles Yon chipped...
...undemonstrative, scrupulous, brilliant but unimaginative-the best we had in a time when that best seemed more adequate to deal with the world than it does today. As the book goes along, one is inclined to forgive Henry, and the author, the narrative necessities that shoot him hither and yon and miraculously equip him with the Russian and German necessary to do his work for Wouk, F.D.R. and the reader...
...Waterloo, the battle could have ended in a French victory, and Wellington might have taken Bonaparte's lease on the house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown up at Gettysburg when he was supposed to, instead of galloping his cavalry hither and yon through the quiet backwoods of Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee might have won the Civil War's most crucial battle. Richmond today might be the capital of the Confederate States of America...