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...CHINA ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA, veteran correspondent and China-watcher Fox Butterfield debunks most of these illusions about the nature of the Chinese government, and injects a very believable image of society into our consideration of that country. A sprawling narrative of his tenure as New York Times bureau chief in Peking from 1979 to 1981, the book paints an ugly picture of the "unofficial" China lurking behind the official facade of a prosperous socialist success story. Drawing on a wide and extensive series of interviews with students, dissidents, party members, reporters, and his own observations and insightful analysis...
...Butterfield touches on a wide variety of subjects in his probing of Chinese society, its peoples and attitudes. These range from the struggling dissident movement and youth disenchantment to daily life and sexual practices. The book is a collage of experiences, anecdotes, and conversations that marked Butterfield's stay in Peking and other travels around the country...
...autobiography of Kathryn Crosby was entitled Bing and Other Things (sample chapters: "How to Marry Bing"; "How to Have a Baby-or Three"). Well, Bing is gone, and soon a lot of the "other things" will be too, says Kathryn, 48. Late this month at Butterfield's auction house in San Francisco, she will put virtually her entire collection of Bing-a-brac on the block. Included is Bing's first recording, I've Got the Girl, made in 1926 with Don Clark and his Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra. Also up for bids: Bing...
Aside from Haldeman and Alexander Butterfield, his deputy who operated the system, practically no one knew of its existence. The idea was first suggested when Nixon found in the White House a taping system installed by President Johnson. He had had it removed then, but looked more favorably on it as he found himself engulfed in leaks. (He forgot that Johnson's system was controlled from the President's desk, permitting selectivity; Nixon's system, activated by sound, was beyond the control of even its originator-ironically symbolic of a White House mood that had run essentially...
...tapes' existence was publicly revealed on television by Alex Butterfield before Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee on July 16. Some Nixon supporters were jubilant: the foxy Nixon had once again confounded his opponents; the tapes were certain to exonerate him. I was less confident...