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...Pentagon spokesman said that the VC-9C, parrying sophisticated communications equipment, was necessary because "the Secretary of Defense is in the national military command authority chain. As such he must be instantly contactable at all times." Half an hour before takeoff last Friday, the flight, which had attracted national press attention, was scrubbed. Pentagon officials said the press of business kept Weinberger grounded...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...
...Pope's visit to Poland is a lesson to all, but especially to the politicians who try to delude their constituencies into believing that the greatest bulwark against tyranny is an arsenal of nuclear warheads. John Paul has no armies at his command. His strength is truth. John Paul has not a single armament at his disposal. Courage is his only defense. The military power of a Caesar, a Hitler or a Stalin is short-lived compared with the moral power of leaders like Jesus, Gandhi and John Paul...
...some Freshman Week reception at the Fogg, and at a dinner or two in your upperclass House. He'll also be at Commencement, four years down the road, to wish you his best and welcome you into "the company of learned men and women." While he theoretically has command over every detail of your lives, Bok, for the most part, keeps his hands out of the daily affairs of undergraduates, leaving such matters to the folks who manage the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of which the College is a part...
...minutes. At one point Martina's dress came undone; everything else held together. "I was looking at the clock," Jaeger admitted. " 'I better take my time on the changes,' I thought. The match was going kind of fast." Maybe the simplest description of Navratilova's command now is that she can turn the No. 3 player in the world into a clock watcher. "I'm not unbeatable," Martina says, "but I'm pretty difficult to beat...