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...good idea, therefore, to attend the cider and cookie shindig at your senior adviser's pad. And don't be careless with your fancy invitation to Dean Hank Moses' tea party. You'll get hot cider, good coffee and some of the best pastries in Cambridge. And you'll get a chance to meet the Dean, who's truly a great guy. Ask him to go rock climbing and he'll love you. But be careful about dragging him onto a handball court. He's a terror...
...looking over the other's shoulder, searching for key words to pop out, since their ability to read English is limited. A copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, with its uncompromising portrait of Lenin, was flipped through without incident, but a yellow legal pad on which I had written "KGB -neat shoes"-a reference to being able to spot a secret-service agent by his spruced-up footwear-caused a considerable stir. The officials studied the pad for five minutes...
...trades in his Levis for a three-piece suit and brings his golf clubs to work to practice his putting. But all this character does is rant at Thompson. Linson and Kaye seem afraid to get too serious, so instead of examining or satirizing the publisher's establishmentarianization, they pad his scenes with dumb lines about Thompson's eccentricities...
...more than an hour, the two men sat under a magnolia tree in the Rose Garden and talked. Yellow legal pad in lap, Jimmy Carter did more listening than speaking. They met again that afternoon with their advisers present, then by themselves the next morning. The meetings, as Press Secretary Jody Powell observed, were "very warm," and at the state dinner held that night in his guest's honor, Carter himself jokingly alluded to the admiration he felt for his visitor. "I'm thankful one man is not running against me," the President said. "How would you like...
...That convinced the Pentagon that the feared bomber gap was fictional. Three years later, the overhead view of the Tyuratam site (where all Soviet missiles were then tested) gave the U.S. some needed reassurance. Determining that the rocket booster aperture at the base of the launch pad was 15 meters (50 ft.) in diameter, photo interpreters concluded that the Soviets were still using missiles boosted by auxiliary rockets strapped around the circumference of the main rocket. Because they were so cumbersome that they could not be practically deployed, U.S. strategic planners concluded that the missile gap did not exist either...