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...most vitriolic attack came from New York Times Columnist William Safire. He wrote of Mrs. Reagan's "extraordinary vindictiveness" in dumping Regan and called her an "incipient Edith Wilson," referring to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's control of the White House after her husband was incapacitated by a stroke in 1919. Nancy Reagan, rasped Safire, is "unelected and unaccountable, presuming to control the actions and appointments of the Executive Branch...
...moderate and conciliatory to please Reagan's hard-right fans for long, the choice of Baker drew wide initial praise. Democratic Senator James Sasser, Baker's onetime colleague from Tennessee, praised the new chief of staff's "pragmatism and reasonableness" and called the selection of Baker a "stroke of genius...
Poindexter replied with a fatherly "Now you are getting emotional again," then added, "I just wanted to lower your visibility so you wouldn't be such a good target for the Libs." North continued his contra operations. "Ollie knew how to stroke John," recalls one fellow NSC staffer. "He was a master, let me tell you." North frequently played up to his superiors. In a note to McFarlane, he talked about the "tremendous pressure" on Poindexter, saying, "My part in this was easy compared to his. I only had to deal with our enemies. He has to deal with...
Tour golfers are forever calling penalties on themselves for imperceptible violations. Preparing to putt at the past Westchester Classic, Raymond Floyd noticed the ball move microscopically and docked himself a stroke. He fell out of contention, but the shot still meant $4,500 in lost pay. Twice, that same situation has cost Tom Kite tournament championships and a total of $59,800. Such scrupulous honesty is the rule in professional golf, though there are exceptions. Using her trusty antitrust iron, Jane Blalock once had to go to court to fight off a lynch mob of fellow competitors who wanted...
...enterprise murders his wife for her infidelity. A London radio personality and book reviewer, distantly related to Naipaul's reclusive landlord, commits suicide. The gardener, whose comings and goings helped the writer regulate his solitary days, is abruptly fired. The man who manages the manor dies suddenly of a stroke. Elms in the valley die out; beech trees near Naipaul's cottage must be cut down; two huge aspens are torn apart by heavy wind...