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From his apartment overlooking the Valley of the Cross, Jerusalem Stringer Marlin Levin could watch a Jordan-Israeli artillery exchange, "left-right, left-right, almost like a tennis game." Levin's eight-year-old son Donnie whiled away the time by writing letters to relatives in the U.S.: "There...
In a way, it was only fitting. Regal, imperious, and acid-tongued, Indira is a true daughter of the Indian revolution. As a child, she watched her parents hauled off repeatedly to jail by India's British rulers, whiled away her loneliness by teaching her dolls to emulate Gandhi...
Mandatory Days. At his lakeside ranch house, Humphrey changed into sports clothes, whiled away the after noon talking to Minnesota friends by phone. Later, he and Muriel returned to Minneapolis, went to a Sheraton-Ritz Hotel suite to listen to returns. There the South Dakota druggist's son who...
Once, a college coed might have whiled away her summer boning up on a fourth language, rereading Russian novels, or recording the labyrinthian travels of a psychopathic mouse. That was that. Today, if she's got her wits (and her checkbook) about her, she winds up such frivolous pursuits...
Fainting & Needlework. Ida McKinley, on the other hand, was given to fainting spells, and she whiled away nearly all of her husband's term doing needlework. William Howard Taft's wife Helen attended every Cabinet meeting with him, and when the press accused her of influencing policy, she...