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...Control and Disarmament Director Rostow, Defense Secretary Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and General John W Vessey Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Each of these men brought one aide. Absent, however, were the two officials who had been most influential in formulating arms-control policy: Perle and Burt. Perle was combining a vacation with a stay at the Aspen Institute arms-control workshop in Colorado. Burt, who had been nominated to replace Eagleburger as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, had run into conservative opposition in the Senate, and Shultz was keeping him away from the controversial...
...joining Shultz on a tour of West European capitals in December, partly for fear that Nitze would contaminate the leaders along the way with his gloomy views. "Whoever Paul's been talking to over there," said Perle, "has got the poor man in a state of despair." Richard Burt was harsher: "Nitze's utterly spooked; he's gone around the bend; he's panicking; he's falling apart." To Nitze's face, Burt said, "Relax. The trouble will die down once we get over the hump at the end of the year...
...book's roster of guests shows that Lowell has made ample use of its funds. The list includes Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, gourmet cook Julia Child, columnist Ellen Goodman, journalist Oriana Fallacci, songwriter and comedian Tom Lehrer '47, the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and actors Burt Reynbolds and Robert Redford...
...Beer Haul Redneck Express. Burt Reynolds, Dom De Luise. High-speed fun as battling bootleggers barrel down high ways crashing into diners...
...they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand or Gregory Peck...