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...tide of backstage events ebbs in one direction, rises in another. One might expect that Bing and Gentele confer regularly to compare notes and exchange strategies. But no. When at a performance on the same evening, they sit in different boxes. "Mr. Gentele and I meet once or twice a week in the corridors, waving to each other-and that is all," says Bing. "So it appears that he gets all his information, if indeed he needs any, from the board of directors or other sources. My only source of information used to be the French restaurant across the plaza...
...indication that it can be applied successfully here. The occupiers will probably be eligible to file for homestead before they would leave Mass Hall to Bok and Angola to Gulf. As Randall Robinson puts it. "This our turf now. The University is in exile. Now we are prepared to confer a degree on you in here. Yeah, we've taken our shoes off and set up. Yeah, this Birth of a Nation...
...told other central bankers that the board would let U.S. short-term interest rates rise-a move that should help stanch the flow of dollars abroad in search of a higher return. Then, at midweek, Connally declared in Manhattan that he was dispatching Treasury Under Secretary Paul Volcker to confer with foreign officials about first steps toward long-run monetary reform...
...going out and getting jobs." World War II made Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction was the "togetherness" syndrome of the Eisenhower era, a doomed attempt to confer on suburban motherhood something of the esteem that pioneer women once enjoyed. From the affluent housewife's suicidal despair in J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," it was not far to The Feminine Mystique...
People's Daily front-pages a picture of Mao and Nixon. Nixon and Chou En-lai confer privately for four hours. Evening at the ballet...