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When he accompanied President Ford to China in 1975, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was trailed by the customary entourage of diplomatic correspondents, television commentators and syndicated columnists. When Kissinger disclosed that he would be returning to the People's Republic as a private citizen last month, some of his former traveling companions asked to go along. Only one was chosen: Columnist Joseph Kraft...
...Foreign Minister Huang Hua. Kraft reports he was surprised to find that Vice Premier Deng, only recently regarded as the undisputed leader of China, "seemed restrained, almost wistful-not the self-confident boss secure at the top of the greasy pole he so often climbed before." By contrast, the columnist found Deng's reputed rival, Party Chairman Hua, to be "well informed and composed He didn't give the impression of someone being threatened from below...
...week called on him to enter the race, the Senator has made personal telephone calls to reassert his unavailability. And yet at the same time he repeatedly offers coy hints and insinuations that he might still become a candidate. A couple of months ago, the Senator told a favorite columnist in Boston that he would go after the nomination if Carter did not seek reelection, and the writer published it just that way. When one of Kennedy's staffers rushed in to tell him about the story and asked about releasing a denial, Kennedy waved him off. "I said...
...page (about 1,200 words), and they had to be submitted in time to meet deadlines. If these strictures were met, the editor offered a bonus: Thomas' pieces would be printed, with no changes or revisions, exactly as he had written them. "That was irresistible," recalls the columnist...
...history of the New York Yankees is virtually the history of baseball," New York Times columnist Dave Anderson writes in introducing this shameless horn-blower of a book. After those 11 years, you feel like blowing your horn; bask in the hubris, regreet old friends. Watch Babe Ruth's astonishing 60 home runs in 1927, and Roger "Bwana" Maris's 61 in '61; follow the Yankee Clipper through his 56 game hitting streak; trace a young Mickey Mantle's blasts till they go out of sight while Manager Casey Stengel, at your elbow, credits the incredible distance of the shot...