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...leadership, maintain its economic strength. He will write about the role of the presidency, enlarging on his feeling that the institution is not going to be dramatically changed and that Presidents must take the office as it is and determine events with their personal skills. When he wrote the current book, RN, of which 300,000 copies are now in print, the former President dictated 1.5 million words about events of his political life and his thoughts about them. They were boiled down to about 500,000 words. From the mass of unused material, Nixon is now extracting, polishing...
...least 100 Charter 77 members have been forced to quit even the lowly jobs they were formerly allowed to hold. The movement's current leaders-Singer Marta Kubišová, Philosopher Ladislav Hejdanek, and former Regional Party Secretary Jaroslav Šabata-are under constant surveillance. Nonetheless, in a gesture commemorating the invasion anniversary, a small group of Charter 77 members managed to meet in secret this month with their Polish counterparts to discuss possible future cooperation...
...Spud Murphy's, Salisbury's newest nightclub, young white Rhodesian soldiers lurched onto the dance floor last week and joined in a beery war dance to a current hit song, Sweet Banana. The song is a tribute to troopies like themselves "who fight with bravery-and win." A white businessman, surveying the scene, remarked, "Right now the only black man who could survive in this place would have to be at least a sergeant major -with a citation for valor in the Rhodesian army." A few miles away, in the black township of Harari, a well-known black...
...Jaws. Last year it was Star Wars, the most successful film of all time. This year it is Star Wars again. Sweeping into 1,700 theaters last month in the greatest rerun in history, it registered its biggest week ever, and is still outdrawing most of the current crop of new films. But some of those are also doing very well, including Grease, Heaven Can Wait, Jaws 2, Foul Play and Revenge of the Pink Panther. Hence Hollywood's ebullient summer...
...current prevailing view of the public schools derives from writers like Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell, who were as unhappy there as budding authors typically are anywhere. The Old School Tie is a useful corrective. While glossing over none of the system's barbarities and stupidities, Gathorne-Hardy points out its virtues as well. True, the rigid conformity imposed on young boys did not encourage incentive or initiative. Peter Ustinov's master at Westminster wrote of him in 1939: "He shows great originality, which must be curbed at all costs...