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From Beverly Hills he flew off to Las Vegas for a day to consult with Songwriter-Singer Paul Anka, who has confected a ditty called I Believe There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love, about Jimmy Connors' revived romance with the First Lady of Tennis, Chris Evert, 20. Connors, who has never sung professionally, will record the song himself. After meeting with Anka, Connors hopped back to Los Angeles to greet Evert, who had just jetted in from Philadelphia for a tournament...
...offensive until 1976, when it would neatly coincide with the U.S. presidential elections. Perhaps because Ambassador Graham Martin was on home leave in North Carolina recovering from dental surgery-and probably also to show independence of Washington out of pique for not getting more military aid-Thieu did not consult with U.S. officials in either Saigon or Washington in advance of his momentous and daring decision to abandon the provinces. But then again, many of his own military commanders got their first hints of it by reading the Vietnamese newspapers...
Rebuffed by Sadat. Kissinger, after stopping in Brussels to consult on Cyprus with Greek Foreign Minister Dimitrios Bitsios, flew to Aswan, 400 miles south of Cairo, and met Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Then Kissinger resumed his familiar shuttle diplomacy from Damascus to Jerusalem and back to Aswan. Before he left Washington, some diplomats rated his chances for success at no better than fifty-fifty...
After a 24-hour weekend with Wife Maureene and their children, Dees was off again last week to Raleigh, N.C.-this time by plane. He was on his way to consult with attorneys working on the case of Joan Little, 20, who escaped from a jail in Washington, N.C., after stabbing the county jailer to death. Little claims that she was defending herself against rape, and Dees was helping to organize a search for evidence to bolster her argument. Many guards in the jail, he contends, regularly extorted sexual favors from women prisoners...
...aesthetic dud, A Doll's House is a sold-out hit for its seven-week run. Joseph Papp engineered it that way by settling for star power. This is faintly amusing considering his long and loud castigations of Broadway commercialism. Too bad he didn't consult a Broadway producer before casting the play. ∙T.E.Kalem