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Beyond that, the secret meetings were calculated to brighten Dayan's image. He would like to succeed Begin as Premier, but he has not had a secure power base since leaving the Labor Alliance to join the new government. Secret diplomacy can make influential friends as well as intriguing headlines. It can also provoke critics. "Our Foreign Minister," editorialized the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv last week, "has special talents in the sphere of thunderous secrecy. The entire world is always well informed about his timetable. Mr. Dayan creates too much ado about his secrets." Added a second newspaper...
...into a typewritten message. Boston Pediatrician Lawrence Reiner uses his machine to relax by playing TV games with his children. Robert Phillips, president of Gimix Inc., a Chicago firm that computerizes entire households, has installed terminals in every room of his Chicago apartment. He uses them to dim and brighten his lights, tune his stereo, turn his television on and off, even to open and close his drapes...
...convention mischief in 1968 and later blissed out on the Perfect Master Maharaj Ji. Davis, it turns out, now sells life insurance for John Hancock in Denver, wearing contact lenses and what looks like a blow-dry hairdo. He is living, he says, a sweet, useful life: Brighten the Corner Where...
Your writers forgot to rate the friendliness of the people who work at the airports in the guide [July 18]. Cheerful employees can always brighten a weary or troubled traveler. I've been in only six of the airports mentioned, but I would rate them as follows: Denver's Stapleton: very helpful and friendly. Kennedy and LaGuardia: surprisingly friendly and helpful. Charles de Gaulle and O'Hare: civil. National: grouchy...
...Randazzo parlor, red and white checkered bows brighten dried-flower arrangements left over from Frank Randazzo's funeral. "We were married 37 years," says Mrs. Randazzo, wiping tears from behind black-rimmed glasses. "Before you know it, it's goodbye...