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...orbital space complex capable of effectively attacking ground, sea and air targets from space." DeLauer's views were inadvertently leaked when Republican Congressman Ken Kramer of Colorado, thinking a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee was still closed to the public, read a top-secret briefing paper aloud...
...never saw a team as fired up as Boston College," Cleary says. "We always asked the B.C. players who they were supposed to win for this time. We swore Snooks sent himself inspiring telegrams and then read them aloud in the locker room...
...Pasternak's son is sparing no effort to save his father's house and has challenged the Writers' Union to take him to court. Until it is legal to read Doctor Zhivago aloud in the Soviet Union, he says, he will fight in every way he can to keep alive the memory of the author who wrote of his countrymen, "You are eternity's hostage, a captive of time...
Finally, Ehrlichman writes, "Nixon wondered aloud if Henry needed psychiatric care," and urged, "Talk to him, John." Added Ehrlichman: "I could think of no way to talk to Henry about psychiatric care. I had no confidence that that was what would help Henry, nor could I bring myself to confront Henry with the President's apparent lack of confidence in his mental stability...
...Dark Dark Tale (Dial; $8.95). Here the central role is taken by an unnamed black cat who once upon a time on a dark, dark moor takes a journey through a dark, dark wood to a dark, dark house, up dark, dark stairs . . . Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. The book's mysterious power is engendered by the illustrations of weed-choked gardens and abandoned, echoing halls, of mullioned windows and blowing curtains-a child's portion...