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...chances are good that successful people already know all this. The author is thus writing for the great mass of time wasters, fully aware that they probably will not be able to quit having an extra martini at lunch, much less complete their long-range or short-term goals. Still, as a writer's priority, a large audience for a book...
...wooing expedition to Mississippi, he headed back to Washington on Air Force One. His private lounge exuded more homey comfort than overwhelming power. Ford was in his shirtsleeves, filling and fiddling with his pipe. His olive was high and dry on the ice cubes at the bottom of his martini glass. The bulkheads were decorated with an array of David Kennerly's color photos of the Ford children. All that was missing to complete the scene was a cedar log crackling in a fireplace...
Flying home on Air Force One from his encouraging visit to the Mississippi delegates in Jackson, President Ford relaxed with a martini at his side and a pipe in his hand and talked politics with TIME White House Correspondent Strobe Talbott. His thoughts...
...well as a political jamboree of uncertain result. Several of Parliament's 378 new members are in fact well-known faces who will add a glow of celebrity to the legislatures. From Turin, for instance, comes Count Luigi Rossi di Montelra, Christian Democrat Deputy and vermouth empire executive (Martini & Rossi), who was kidnaped three years ago; the Count won public accolades for the exemplary stoicism he displayed during the 120-day ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded his sister Susanna Agnelli...
Equally explicit are the accounts of many other aspects of the bishop's career. An alcoholic, he was three times picked up drunk and confused by police. He told one airline stewardess she could not mix a good martini, standing up in the aisle to show her how to do it. He joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1964 and with one brief lapse stayed dry thereafter...