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...shirt-sleeves in a modest temporary office whose only personal touch is a photo of his wife. He spends much of his time conferring with bankers and lawyers, and meets daily with Diller, sometimes for lunch in the Fox commissary. Murdoch also occasionally picks up a yellow legal pad and drops in on a creative session in which Diller and his top lieutenants discuss TV and movie ideas. "Rupert is very quiet in these meetings," one participant reports. "He might ask, 'How much does that cost?' or, 'What does that mean?' Sometimes he takes notes, but usually he just listens...
Prior to the trip, passengers will have to go through a three-day orientation and training program at a luxurious resort complex near the launch pad...
...offense couldn't advance the ball, though, so kicker Alan Hall booted a 42-yard field goal to pad the Harvard lead...
Ludicrous scores like that were not uncommon in the early years of the Harvard gridiron, when the Crimson used to routinely pad its record against much weaker opponents...
...owners of the resort at Mount McGregor had actually attracted Grant to come and die in comfort there, a sort of publicity stunt. Grant went along with it. But as he enacted that odd humiliation, he was, in the privacy of his mind and on his lined note pad, composing his memoirs, one of the strongest and purest documents of American public life...