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...three decades ago. Last week the mellifluous-voiced ex-minister was back in class again, this time as a visiting professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs. Eban has had time on his hands since he was shuffled out of the Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel to take his seat in the Knesset in December, with no fears that his academic interlude might weaken his appeal. "In politics," he says, "a discreet measure of literacy is no longer a fatal handicap...
...decomposition that slowly destroys the cellulose fibers in paper is arrested. Thus most of today's paper, which normally lasts from 50 to 100 years, can, with repeated soakings in the milk of magnesia solution at 50-year intervals, be made to last up to 200 years longer. Shake well before using...
...over an illuminated manuscript in an Erasmus-like tower. You lean over and look out the window at the little groups of women walking to market and children playing tag, a couple of lovers smiling at one another in the grass, and a frown comes over your face, you shake your head, and, with a slight disdainful grunt, you return to pore over your work...Then, as you are trying to concentrate, you are pushed by someone muttering to himself, "Where the hell are the psychology books?" and you are back in Cambridge, in the Coop, selecting books...
...Representatives where he served happily for 25 years. He was cheered so long and loudly by his old friends from both houses of Congress that the President turned and said to his old friend Speaker Carl Albert, "You're wasting good TV time." Later he seemed determined to shake every hand in the House. "You know," Albert told him, the microphones picking up his aside over the roar of applause, "I'm afraid I might have called you Jerry instead of Mr. President last night." The President laughed...
...Conference. Moore found himself swept along in congenial confusion through those sacred corridors of power in the White House. He paused at the Oval Office, then went on to the Cabinet Room. There was no agenda and Ford just came into the room with no fanfare and started to shake hands around the big table. "This should be a frank discussion," he told the men, "but most important, it should be relaxed...