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...others in Nixon's retinue were men of politics, men who could be restrained by adverse domestic feeling or be deterred from a policy that seemed to make no material sense. But Nixon-a President determined to behave in a Presidential way-and Kissinger the great power diplomat would brook no compromise. And Nixon's personal relationship with Kissinger, unfettered as it was by ulterior political motives, became deep and profound. Kissinger is the President's only post-1960 acquaintance to have become a member of his personal inner circle. He sees Nixon more frequently than...
...government official. Mr. Mangal Bihari, came to Ananda Marga. Mr. Bihari is Chief Director for Sugar and Oil in the Indian Ministry of Food and Agriculture and has been in the U.S. recently on state business. I taped his story last weekend at a gathering of Margiis in Stony Brook...
...join an amateur theater group and supported herself selling purgatives and eyedrops behind a chemist's counter. She won a two-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then embarked on what she calls "the traditional English round: repertory and unemployment." In 1964, Peter Brook invited her to join the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she participated in his experimental theater of cruelty...
Hard and Cold. When Brook opened his shocking and magnificent Marat Sade, with Glenda playing the mad, murderous Charlotte Corday, her performance was one of the truly curdling experiences in contemporary theater; it gained her widespread attention in London and New York. It also created a mold that was both rewarding and discomfiting. "I really loathed that play," she admits. "It was so hard and cold. There was very little interaction, since all the inmates were operating on separate levels of madness. But at least by the time I left it, I didn't have to scratch for work...
...House Appropriations Subcommittee often bragged that he never cut Hoover's budget requests. Films, television series and books chronicled the bureau's crime-fighting exploits. The bureau's image has begun to fuzz of late, thanks to Hoover's outspoken beliefs and unwillingness to brook criticism from any quarter. He admitted that he had not even spoken to Robert Kennedy during Kennedy's last six months as Attorney General and labeled Ramsey Clark "a jellyfish" and "a softie...