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...were not likely to get through the Price Commission anyway? Quite possibly, aides wanted Nixon rather than Grayson to get credit for stopping the rise. Indeed, TIME learned last week that Rumsfeld never asked Grayson what the commission was likely to do, and did not even tell the price czar about the jawboning until after it had begun...
...long conceived it, a mysterious pageant presided over by God. It was, instead, a work of man. Society has laws and patterns that can be descried, like the laws of science, and used to improve the human lot. To the Finland Station ends after the fall of the czar in 1917 with the exiled Lenin's return to Russia (via the Finland Station in Petrograd) and his harsh speech calling upon the soldiers and workers of the revolution to reject the reforms of the revolutionary Provisional Government and seize all power for the people...
Indeed, the only question was whether Balanchine's own spirits rose to the occasion or the occasion rose to Balanchine's spirits. At 68, four times divorced, czar of his own school of ballet and highly disciplined troupe, Balanchine has long been known for his total dedication to his work. But in the last six weeks, he doubled his efforts and enthusiasm, overseeing every detail of the festival and choreographing nine completely new ballets. He was at his happiest in his shirt sleeves at rehearsals, positioning his dancers and instructing them by singing out "Slow-slow-slow...
...first crucial question is how the bureau should be controlled: by a czar like Hoover running a virtually autonomous agency within the Justice Department? Or by a director under closer supervision of the Attorney General? The question is complicated by the fact that the office of Attorney General has recently become an increasingly political appointment (e.g., Robert Kennedy, John Mitchell...
...Petersburg, Lola got a "private audience" with the Czar, who gave her 1,000 rubles for services rendered. In Dresden, she got Liszt, the great lover of the age, and so wore him out that one night he locked her in a hotel room and fled, leaving a substantial sum to pay for the furniture he knew she would break. In Paris, she got culture and a taste for liberal politics in the company of Balzac, Lamartine, George Sand, Victor Hugo, and especially Dumas père. She found the great love of her life, however, with a talented radical...