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Clements said the meeting was called to clarify the current situation and to discuss possible candidates for the position. Clements would not release the names of possible candidates but said "it is becoming clearer and clearer that the administration will take our views into consideration. The only question now is what form they will take and how much weight they will have," he added...
...movie or TV writer could have fashioned a conclusion that was more cheerful, or at least clearer. In fact, the apparent end of the two-month-long actors' strike last week left about as many unanswered questions as the average episode of Dallas. After a marathon session, negotiators for the unions and the producers reached an agreement, but no one was certain when production would resume, or indeed if the 60,000 performers involved would ratify the contract at all. There were a few forced handshakes, but, as Industry Spokesman Philip Myers wryly phrased it, "there was no dancing...
...valid editorial: "Yes. We're not very admirable, especially in our colonies, but the Nazis are worse . . . It is worth fighting. In England decency is making slow progress; in Germany it's taking a big step backward. Think about the people you love, and the issues become clearer...
...Large quantities of porta ble Hawaiian artifacts went back on the boats to Europe, where they remain in the British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious Death of Cook from the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, instead of limiting itself to a small painting of the great explorer's death by the mediocre...
...Former President, let me try to make myself clearer. I think it's a shame for someone of your experience and expertise to sit around like some kind of elder statesman just acting wise...