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...shred when, at 14, he left Georgetown Day and enrolled at Hawthorne, another progressive private school, located in the now reconstructed slum of Southwest Washington. Though not the first Negro to enter Hawthorne, Guy was the first to stay there, and eventually won a prize for being the best all-round student. Soon, though, he realized that he was a Negro, and some of what that meant. In an annual school forum on race relations, he shocked his white friends by saying: "Whenever I'm in a room with mostly white students, my hands begin to sweat...
...Bulgarian Party Congress last week, Zhivkov proudly detailed "an all-round upsurge" in the nation's economy - the product of a quiet three-year-old reform experiment that has placed 60% of Bulgaria's industry on a profit-incentive basis...
Wechsberg's main point is that the merchant bankers nowadays are increasingly branching out of traditional finance to become all-round consultants and father-confessors. Germany's Hermann Abs, for example, is a director of 24 companies. The Lehman bankers, besides sitting on 200 corporate boards, have an investment advisory service handling accounts worth $2 billion. Nobody with less than $500,000 need apply...
...Hero (NBC), out of the same shop and mold as last season's hit, Get Smart. Richard Mulligan is cast as an actor who is cast as an actor in a TV western series. In real life he is a suburban dude and a sort of all-round schlemiel. Between (and sometimes during) takes, he is horse-shy, allergic to sagebrush, and as rugged as Mr. Peepers. But the sight gags are inventive, and the dialogue is literate. The only other situation comedy worth a twirl is That Girl (ABC), a sort of My Sister Eileen, starring Danny Thomas...
...communiqué. It disclosed that the oft-postponed third Five-Year Plan is under way at last, and commended Mao for his "brilliant" policies. As for the purge, the committee declared that "an invigorating revolutionary atmosphere prevails in the whole country, and the situation is one of a new all-round leap forward emerging." If things seemed to be a bit chaotic as a result, what did it matter? "Dare to make revolution and be good at revolution," cried Peking. "Don't be afraid of disorder...