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He yearns for time away from his major preoccupation in recent years--international relations--so that he can devote more of his energies to his other field--France. "I've always longed to be French," he says. "And when I have the time, I hope to do much more teaching...
Shaw said the endowment would take some of the financial pressure off of the Advocate's editors and allow them to devote more time to literary activities. "Now, we labor under the problem of insufficient cash, both to pay bills and to schedule more public readings," he said.
Died. Helen Palmer Geisel, 69, wife of "Dr. Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical...
Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, who ran unsuccessfully in 1 963 as a segregationist, opened his gubernatorial campaign by pleading for a truce in Mississippi's racial war. "Trying to keep something from happening has absorbed so much of our total energies for all these years that we haven'...
Cao Ky, by gradually ceding to him some of the broader, extraconstitutional powers that Ky demanded in return for accepting the No. 2 position. One main Ky assignment will be chasing crooks. Says Ky: "During the next four years, I will devote myself to cleaning the house; otherwise, with corruption...