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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most morbid time," Le Carré theorizes, "when he has finished a book. He has been to the end of his talent. It is a frightening view. I went a bit crazy." Flung into the celebrity circuit, he was "eaten alive, asked questions which I felt invasive and impossible to answer." He produced another book, The Looking Glass War, but it brought little satisfaction; reviewers said the adventure could not compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. "I did it," he insists, "because Richard...
When Lummis tried to impose his will on the Old Guard, Davis struck back in a Delaware court by seeking to have him removed as co-administrator of the estate, charging that Lummis had a conflict of interest as both co-administrator and Summa chairman. Lummis' answer was to fire Davis as Summa chief counsel (he had earlier kicked him off the board). A hard man to beat, Davis simply moved his power base to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, run by the oldtimer triumvirate of Davis, Gay and Nadine Henley, Hughes' onetime assistant. The institute...
...newly restyled Times (circ. 854,000), Saffir calls it "successful, fat, stuffy" and alleges that the paper has perpetrated a virtual news blackout on the birth of its new morning competitor. Counters Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "Mr. Saffir's remarks are too contemptible to answer." It is true that the Times has limited its Trib coverage to brief announcements. But Times editors have reason to be skeptical. Beginning in 1973, they devoted considerable attention to the plans of Oilman John Shaheen to launch a new daily called the New York Press. Although he invested a reported $25 million...
...food services budget. Last winter CHUL's Food Services subcommittee requested a detailed accounting for the roughly $8 million the College pays yearly to Food Services. Months later, Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, sent the group a one-page letter, which most student members found an inadequate answer to their request. The students believed they needed precise financial data to arrive at decisions on the breakfast plan, the closing of the Union to upperclassmen, and the method of sending freshmen to the Houses for occasional meals...
...response to members' complaints that the rigid schedule prohibits students from asking probing questions, CHUL this year will institute a 20 minute question-and-answer period, during which the discussion of any topic will be permitted...