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...ROBERT V. ROOSA, 43, Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. The selection of bow-tied, scholarly Banker Roosa (pronounced Roza) to be Treasury's No. 3 man was audibly cheered by the U.S. financial community. A former teacher at both Harvard and M.I.T., Roosa was for four years research director for the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, earned a reputation in his trade as "the best central banker in the world." He has a good teacher's ability to talk lucidly on complex subjects, makes a brilliant congressional witness. Roosa has been the man behind Dillon...
...feasting in Abidjan, where a brand-new presidential palace gleamed in marble glory above cool fountains and wide terraces. There, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, made some sort of diplomatic fashion history by appearing in cutaway coat and green polka-dot bow tie. There, too, Bobby announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying, but he appreciated the sentiment.) Bobby, Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance of Joy" under eucalyptus trees...
Hercules Replaced. The third story. The Exile, follows the plot outline of the original. Philoctetes, while discarding the names and reshaping the characters and the symbols-a guerrilla war substitutes for the Trojan War. the secret papers of a dead chief replace the bow of Hercules. The central conflict is played out by a young guerrilla fighter who is sent to a distant island to try to persuade an exiled leader to escape and return to the wars...
...year-old. the older man is a hero, a near-mythical character pressed from the rarest mold. But in the ultimate test, he turns out to be only human, and quite ready to bow to a tough opportunist. To the boy. the blow of disillusionment is shattering-and the impact on the reader is just as powerful...
Dennis, Mass., Cape Playhouse: Future Perfect, a new comedy by Whitfield Connor, with Martha Scott and Lee Bow...