Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday morning, July 10, 1953, a "HENRY ALFRED KISSINGER"--as the FBI recorded his name in its memo, identifying him simply as a "teacher at Harvard University"--called the FBI, reported he had information of interest to the bureau and asked that an agent call him back. That afternoon an "SAC"--the FBI code word for Special Agent in Charge--interviewed Kissinger, who explained that he directed the International Seminar, which included persons from foreign countries who "are highly placed economically and politically in their own nation." He added that through these people he hoped "to place American policy...
...tempting to call this Da a family company. Hughes optioned Da several years ago, plucking it off his agent's desk. When it came time to cast the national company (after winning a handful of Tonys on Broadway) he ensured that both his wife Helen--who plays Charlie's mother, Da's wife--and his daughter Laura--who acts the town tart--were cast alongside him. Their talent merits his nepotism. Indeed, only Tom Crawley's performance as the elder Charlie seems weak; more likely he simply is overwhelmed by Hughes...
Returns from three of the city's wards show that voters are favoring all of the referendum questions by at least 2-1 margins. The questions call for an end to licensing of nuclear power plants; protection of the "historic scale and character" of Harvard, Porter, Central, Inman and Kendall Squares; enactment of a national health insurance plan; support for the presidential candidacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and placement of zoning restrictions on Cambridge institutions, including Harvard...
...offbeat, to show what the company can do in a more unusual direction. The great Viennese tradition, after all, is made up of a succession of creative figures who transformed it even as they were perpetuating it. Mahler once burst out to his recalcitrant colleagues: "What you theater people call your tradition is nothing but your comfort and your laziness." Maazel seems prepared to line up with Mahler when he says: "Opera has to be renewed constantly. I shall not hesitate to break with tradition to maintain the excellence of this company...
...Chairman Lee lacocca had some good news for his 16 fellow Chrysler directors. Before they gathered for their regular monthly meeting, he had received a call from Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who told him that the suffering No. 3 automaker was going to get the Government aid that it had been seeking since August. Nor would the assistance be chintzy. The Carter Administration had decided to back a federal loan guarantee of $1.5 billion, which was twice what Miller had indicated he would support only last September and a full $500 million more than the company had asked...