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Easily the most relaxed and polished interrogator was the committee's vice chairman, Tennessee Republican Howard H. Baker Jr. He grinned readily at unexpected or tight-hearted answers, but bore in effectively to clarify testimony. Florida Republican Edward J. Gurney, senatorially handsome, used a deep and resonant voice to pose well-reasoned and sequential follow-up questions. Hawaii Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, almost as melodious but terser, intoned crisp, relevant queries. Readiest with information of his own was Connecticut Republican Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who may turn out to be the roughest and most combative of the commit...
...Green bore a bulky resemblance to George S. Kaufman, and he could be almost as funny, talking in an original staccato shorthand. Broadway legend has it that when he wanted a friend to give him a phone call, he would say: "Gimme a quick Ameche one of these days," referring to Don Ameche's bio-pic of Alexander Graham Bell. Canceling a meeting: "Can't meet you today -unforch...
...seen pictures -- before and after four years -- the man who sits behind the desk in the Oval Office in times more trying than any others in history has not sprouted an additional grey hair or developed a new wrinkle. Johnson, at least, looked as if the onus he bore fatigued him, and at the end of his five years, he looked as if it had been twenty...
...World War II, the baron's fortunes were as dilapidated as his estate; his wife and son were dead, the vineyards diseased. Then, in 1950, at the age of 66, the baron discovered and married an attractive young Polish woman, Anna Niepokul-wiska. She soon bore him a son, and then a daughter, Marie...
...bird droppings of 4,000 years running down obelisks and colossi, the deliriously blue sky. The official object of their expedition left him quite cold: he uttered a cry of conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything strange and savage and grotesque. Naked Coptic monks swam out to the young Frenchman's boat to beg for baksheesh and swam back with coins between their teeth. Stray...