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...wife and two children in Paris, and an openly acknowledged mistress. Lady Annabel Birley, and two children in London, he lives a heady cross-Channel version of Captain's Paradise. Sir James Michael Goldsmith, 44, juggles all this and just about everything else with the aplomb of a crack gambler -which he also is. His latest gamble, to become an international press lord...
According to some who have seen both men in action, Kissinger was far more expansive in talks with heads of government. As with reporters, he would tell stories, crack jokes-often at the expense of his aides-and spin out involved arguments to prove a point. Vance sits and listens. He is less lively, but also more straightforward...
Despite all of these precautions, pilots do occasionally crack up airplanes, and one of the main reasons?a reason that concerns the FAA deeply?is simply that they let their minds wander. In a term of the trade, cockpit discipline breaks down. One chilling example of this occurred on Sept. 11, 1974, when an Eastern DC-9, on a landing approach, hit the ground near Charlotte, N.C. While descending, the pilot?as the flight recorder later showed?chatted amiably about racial integration, Richard Nixon's pardon and the merits of Japanese cars. The pilot and 71 others died...
...Chief Justice John Marshall sought to protect the Cherokee tribe in Georgia against illegal encroachments and abuses by the whites. More broadly, Marshall also established the relationship of Federal Government and Indian as guardian and ward. But this particular law of the land Jackson scorned with his much remembered crack, "John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it." Later, Jackson used bribery and troops to acquire the Cherokee lands for the white man, and to drive the Indians across the Mississippi...
...itself, it darts through the air like a crack through...