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...compounded by a covey of curates, schoolmasters and clowns. The R.S.C. invests the evening with lyricism, ardor and joy. In a superbly articulated performance (no surprise from one of the finest actors alive), Ian Richardson as Berowne sums up Shakespeare's conviction that all Utopian dreams run afoul of human needs, desires and nature, and that life is the tutor of words, not words the master of life...
Power clashes are inevitable in so high-powered an atmosphere as the White House; eventually Rumsfeld could collide with Rockefeller-and that would be a spark-producing encounter. But Rumsfeld is more likely to run afoul of Bob Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor and chief speechwriter. Alternately genial and abrasive, Hartmann perfectly reflects his boss's Grand Rapids conservatism. In time, Jerry Ford may be forced to choose between his past politics as represented by Hartmann and the national outlook represented by Rockefeller and Rumsfeld...
...since 1953 one of the four regional kings who rule the estimated 180,000 gypsies in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Houston. George made his living in real estate but also arbitrated disputes among members of his Southwest gypsy clan and helped out subjects who ran afoul...
Army Second Lieut. Mary Lou Follett, 22, a nurse, and Specialist Fourth Class James C. Johnson, 20, a medical technician, met last summer while both were working at Heidelberg Army Hospital in West Germany. They fell in love -and soon fell afoul of Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which has been interpreted to hold that since Johnson was an enlisted man, Lieut. Follett was guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman...
...President or otherwise incurring his disapproval. Diplomats too have difficulties, including even the French, despite Bokassa's often proclaimed Francophilism and France's $5 million a year in budgetary aid. There have been five French ambassadors in Bokassa's eight-year tenure. "They all run afoul of Bokassa sooner or later," explained one French businessman...