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...York Times: "What makes Ted one of the finest critics America has ever produced is his very emotive relationship with the theater, a relationship that far transcends mere intellectual considerations." Twice elected to be president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, Kalem nonetheless chose to abstain on two occasions from the circle's balloting for best play of the year. "Some people," he explains, "regard the theater season as a horse show, and if the closest thing they've got to a horse is a one-eyed mouse, he gets first prize...
...described Albania, sponsor of the successful anti-Taiwan resolution, as "a little, reclusive country composed primarily of rocks and serfs, with here and there a slave master, whose principal export is Maoism." Buckley's recommendation: the President should instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. to abstain forthwith from voting in the General Assembly...
...expulsion of Taiwan, had 61. There were 13 probable abstentions; if they hold firm, only 118 votes will be cast, making 60 enough for a majority. Thus the U.S. must win over three or four of about ten delegations that are thought to be "approachable" but currently inclined to abstain or vote for the Albanians. Among the possible swingers: Turkey, Greece, Iran, Israel, Panama and Mexico...
...working out an agreement. Recently, however, U.S. policy has taken a harder line toward any country that expropriates American property and fails to promise "prompt and adequate compensation." The chief spokesman for that point of view is Treasury Secretary John Connally. He had the U.S. pointedly abstain from voting for World Bank loans to Bolivia and Guyana, and had the Export-Import Bank refuse a $21 million credit to Chile for the purchase of three Boeing passenger jets. Although he denies it publicly, Connally has been heard to say in private that "the U.S. can afford to be tough with...
...message that read simply "from Jesus." The house reaches large groups through its hard-rock band, the Wilson McKinley, which recently helped draw 8,000 to a "Sweet Jesus Rock Concert" at Stanford University. The Jesus People almost lost the crowd when one evangelist told the collegians they should "abstain from sexual immorality, and that means abstain except in marriage. We're finding this is the last area people want to give up." There were no cheers but, astonishingly in the Age of Aquarius, no hoots either...