Pioneer spirits -- Creeping maturity -- Big steps -- Milestones -- Headliners and headaches -- Campaigns, columnists, and gazoos -- Land of high altitude and low multitude -- Mercenaries, emissaries, and eminent demean -- Cold war meltdown -- The VP thing -- The beat goes on -- Friend to the president -- Highs and lows -- Hand-to-hand combat -- Winds of change -- Rounding a corner