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...tiny Moscow apartment, a tall, stooped man of 55 bundled himself into his worn overcoat and ratty fur hat, walked down seven flights of stairs and made his way through a noontime snowstorm to a public phone booth. It was by now a familiar routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell...
...Harrimans have been one of the main social bridges linking old Washington and the new Administration; they held one of the first post-Inauguration dinner parties for the Carter crew. Another bridge builder is Liz Stevens, wife of George Stevens, the director of the American Film Institute; many Carter friends and staffers were at her party for Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's Today show. Other partygivers in Washington, where the sitdown, candlelight dinner still prevails, have duly noted that the Harrimans and the Stevenses both served buffet style, in keeping with the Carter crowd's informal manner...
...dream up such Johnsonian innovations as the Model Cities program and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also ran interference for Johnson in the 1966 creation of the Department of Transportation, a mammoth reorganization achieved in only eight months. One colleague recalls him, not entirely kindly, as "an empire builder who had a kind of abstract concern for the disadvantaged...
...Neill. To offset these political liabilities, Wright has precious personal assets. He is a good listener, ever ready to help his colleagues. When he chooses to speak 'out, he displays a good command of rhetoric. Wright has defined his future role as that of a builder of bridges between differing Democratic factions. With a ready smile below his high-flying eyebrows, Wright has a personality that wins him friends among men who disagree strongly with his ideology. But when he does differ with Speaker-elect O'Neill, he can still be counted on to be a loyal player...
...anyone who wants to build their own house also wants to grow hair all over their bodies and hunt their own food. Wing and Cole consider subjects like connecting the house with utilities, and getting a mortgage (often difficult for off-beat, self-made houses). For the inexperienced home-builder, Cole admits that "arrogance and ignorance can be great allies...