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...shipboard accident in the 1920s, Ludwig is amazingly energetic and keeps close watch on Jari. He receives a constant flow of reports at his headquarters. More important, several times a year he flies to Belem on Brazil's northern coast, traveling economy class except when he can hitch a free ride on a friend's corporate jet. At Belem he waits for the Fairchild turboprop that makes the 90-min. flight daily between the port city and Jari. Disdaining VIP treatment, Ludwig crowds on board with newly recruited laborers, technicians returning from a few days of whooping...
Groll was among them. He had done an Army hitch, spent four years as an antique refinisher, been married and divorced before becoming a caddy. Why did the onetime Presbyterian believe in The Two? "I just felt drawn to them. You could feel the goodness...
...competition with the Russians to reach the moon, NASA showed that it could cooperate with them as well. In 1975, in what was a last hurrah for Apollo, the space agency launched a command module emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes to hitch up briefly with a Soviet Soyuz displaying the Hammer and Sickle. This celestial handclasp between old adversaries involved more politicking than space exploration, but it did set an important precedent for future cooperation in the cosmos as well as on earth. Indeed, although the U.S. and the Soviet Union have jousted over many other issues, they have...
Even on the weekend before the signing, Carter feared that a last-minute hitch might bring the whole thing crashing down once more. On Sunday night there was a flurry of concern when the President was told that Begin had gone to the Egyptian embassy to see Sadat about some agreements still not made. But soon word came that the two men had worked out the problem of how and when Israel was to turn back the Sinai oilfields to Egypt...
...years ago, America should have gotten the message. Perhaps the idea of bernoose-clad desert dwellers putting a hitch in the Amercan Way of Life was too much for people to absorb. Maybe they believed that the energy crisis was a fiction, created by the greedy oil companies. Whatever people thought then, the country now finds itself stuck with the reality of soaring energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies and no coherent approach to bailing the situation...