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...under seven headings: renting or buying a "safe" house, use of automobiles, work methods, appointments, contact with relatives, personal care and what to do in case of arrest. Ringing a kind of middle-class change on Mao's dictum that guerrillas should mix with the people as fish swim in water, the handbook conveys a portrait of an organization that is both rigorously disciplined and shrewd...
...Cape Cod. The rest of the time is divided between his homes in Manhattan and Washington, where he works at being president of the National Gallery. He employs three pilots to fly his Gulfstream jet so that one will always be available. During the summer he will often swim at Cape Cod in the morning, fly to Saratoga to watch the races and have lunch, and be back on the Cape for another swim in the late afternoon. What nature has not provided, money has. Perfect in every other respect, the Cape Cod house at Oyster Harbors was lacking...
Observed from afar, the Kirkland magnetism looks as easy and inevitable as a natural force. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and look at that woman up there on that stage. This illusion, indeed, this bald-faced lie, is the tribute art pays to perspiration, not to mention a flinty intelligence that knows exactly what the body is up to every second of a performance. Says Gelsey: "As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way of doing the unnatural...
...thought can be erased. He simply can't deal with his wife's affair, his own "failure" in Vietnam (he was sent home after injuring himself on the way to the shower), or the implications of the alternative thought being presented to him. So he goes for a suicidal swim in the Santa Monica surf...
Hackett's best swim came in his specialty, the 1650-yd. freestyle. Leading after 500 yards, coach Joe Bernal's prize pupil cost himself a few extra minutes on Wide World of Sports when he succumbed to his old nemesis, UCLA freshman superstar Brian Goodell...