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...first Republican Senator from his state since Jeter Pritchard arrived in Washington in 1895, Helms moved his family into a plain, $46,000 house in suburban Arlington, Va. He assembled a squad of smart, youngish devotees more ruthlessly conservative, if that is possible, than he. After weeks of new-boy floundering, Helms was taken in hand by the late Senator James Allen of Alabama. Allen taught him all the parliamentary angles, and the pupil waded eagerly into the minutiae of procedure...
...other one's been in too long," a youngish male Greek-American explains in somewhat halting English. "Change is a good thing." Timilty walks into the room and there is more than polite applause, but it can't fill the room. There is an introduction--a slew of Greek words--and a smiling "Thank You, Mike," from Timilty. The candidate is in a dark blue pinstripe suit and blue shirt, replete with sideburns struggling to complete the Jerry Brown young-but-responsible look. The voice is all wrong--too high--bouncing off the yellow and beige walls in the basement...
...with the horn was not that elegantly patrician occupant of the Elysee Palace, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing (who is, after all, not even a Guallist, but a member of the small Independent Republican Party). The bugler was the impatient, youngish Guallist, Jacques Chirac, who only 3% months ago angrily quit as Premier because he felt that Giscard had failed to halt the march of the left in France. Now Chirac was issuing a call to arms that would have pleased De Gaulle: he announced the grand reformation of the moribund Guallist party, formed his battalions and declared...
...Philip Marlowe and Christ who has had to wait to shoulder his greatest human burden and solve his biggest crime until now, the beginning of this novel. Until a sunny August afternoon in 1972 and the discovery, on a back road in Lymington, of the body of a youngish woman, her identity blasted past police identification by four .38 caliber slugs to the face...
...call the Boston office of the People's Bicentennial Commission, you'll most likely hear one of those earnest, accent-free youngish voices you know you've heard somewhere before. It will belong to someone who has probably spent at least four years going to school after high school and could probably give Walter Cronkite a run for sounding like the doesn't really come from anywhere. But then the voice begins to sound familiar: "Sure...Salgon's about to fall. The anti-war movement is going domestic...