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...crushed diamonds. The viceroy's house in New Delhi employed nearly 5,000 servants and 418 gardeners. But back home, England reeled under postwar debts and shortages. Coal was scarce, and a bottle of liquor cost $35. For reasons as much financial as idealistic, the Labor government of Clement Attlee was determined to drop the white man's burden. But there was a hitch: the bloodbath following England's exit threatened to be worse than the one that would occur if she stayed...
...A.M.A. and the drug companies, which had earlier contributed $851,000 to AMPAC, joined forces to help kill 1970 legislation designed to provide patients with less expensive medicines. Other papers have linked the A.M.A. with the Nixon Administration's lobbying efforts on behalf of Supreme Court Nominee Clement F. Haynsworth...
After leaving his job at United Air Lines, where he was director of market planning, former White House Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin has landed a job as vice president of W. Clement Stone Enterprises, the family firm that directs the financial affairs of one of Nixon's chief campaign contributors. Chapin has lost one appeal of his perjury convictions and may soon enter prison. White House Aide Charles Colson served six months in prison, has been disbarred, and is now writing about his spiritual conversion for a publisher of religious books. Nixon Attorney Herbert Kalmbach, who spent six months...
...night in Milwaukee, Kissinger was joined on the dais by local Congressman Clement J. Zablocki, a Democratic power on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a leading critic of the Secretary's desire to continue arms shipments to Turkey despite its aggressive actions on Cyprus. Commented a highly satisfied Kissinger aide while watching the encounter: "You see Henry and Zablocki chatting up there? Well, in a polite way, Henry is telling Zablocki, 'Clem, these may be your constituents, but I have a constituency out here...
...handle his fantasy's archvillains, Critics Rosenberg, Greenberg and Steinberg. Wolfe is naive about critical power. The idea that Jackson Pollock was Clement Greenberg's ideological puppet in the '40s and '50s is sim ply not true: Greenberg did Pollock a great service by writing about his work intelligently and with passion, but he did not "tell" Pollock how to paint. (That dubious privilege would be reserved for weaker artists in the '60s, who wanted to attach themselves to Greenberg's by then mythical aura as a trend spotter.) In any case, Wolfe...