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...first presidential press conference in 1922 by irreverent questions thrown at Warren G. Harding, who in plus fours pleaded, "Gentlemen, go easy. I want to get out and play some golf." And when Calvin Coolidge dictated a single sentence, had 25 copies of it made and cut into two-inch strips, then handed them out without comment to reporters who had lined up. The sentence read: "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." Strout resents the later advent of TV coverage of press conferences, which turned reporters into "reluctant, unpaid Hollywood actors, encouraging the exhibitionists...
...recipes, one good cookbook holds more data than eight floppy discs and can be thumbed with wet or sticky hands. Mastering data-base software can also be a taxing task, especially for the neophyte. Most data-base programs are marketed for business use; they come with powerful features and inch-thick manuals. Even with the simplest software, designing an efficient data base for an odd personal need is an art that often requires hours of trial and error. Advises PFS's Gibbons: "You have to ask yourself, 'How many times am I going to access this information...
...rains came-and came and came-in record torrents. The Mount Wilson Observatory, just east of Los Angeles, recorded six inches in twelve hours; in parts of Orange County to the south, one-half inch fell in only eight minutes. The downpours weakened dams, washed out roads, and unleashed murderous mud slides. Three-year-old John Price was crushed to death in his bedroom when a 300-ft.-wide wall of mud swept down a hillside and crashed into his parents' Clear Lake home. Alviso, a low-lying San Jose neighborhood, was suddenly transformed into a 6-ft.-deep...
...semiconscious state. Two days later, according to police, two friends of Anthony Bruno's, hired by Frances for $500, showed up in the bedroom to finish the job. They were Ronald Barlip, 19, and his cousin Donald, 18. The bullet one of them allegedly fired entered an inch from Toto's heart, but it too proved not to be lethal...
...year before she gave her first royal wave (a sort of gentle, repeating karate chop with the hand slightly cupped), her schedule for the entire tour had been mapped out to the minute and the mouthful. Last November the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, walked every inch of the path that the Queen will tread during her tour. Everywhere she goes, the Queen is equipped with a precise tip sheet briefing her on names and issues to be either discussed or avoided...