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...Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, was the author of another document dated November 4, 1970 which urged the "immediate" and "discreet" investigation of black student groups on college campuses...
...across the street. For several months, White House reporters have badgered Press Secretary Ron Ziegler to make public a full list of the White House staff, but none has yet been made available. When it is issued, the roster will include, among others, Special Assistant Roger E. Johnson, a discreet businessman whose job is to act as liaison between Nixon and his old friends. "Some friends," says Johnson, "have been advised that if they have a problem-or just want to talk-to call me. Their problems will reach his [Nixon's] ear." For such service, Johnson earns around...
Every audience loves the ridiculous comic figure who stomps wordlessly across the stage at discreet intervals. In just that role Bob Guaraldi, as Alf the Red Retriever (remember Alph the sacred river in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"?), could not be more ridiculous or more lovable. His costume alone is enough to do the trick: he sports long red underwear, a large fur coat, a bright red nose and great, comfortable-looking boots, the better to clomp with. Each character flirts with everyone else, but Alf manages to be the most open about it, sitting down beside May Wish and howling...
Groupies are not unique to rock-there have always been literary groupies, for example. Though Lord Byron tried hard to be discreet, his large following was well known. Norman Mailer once said the only advantage to being a famous writer is that one could have sex with whomever one wanted. And if we can believe Newsweek , even polls like Henry Kissinger have groupies...
...Asia. Many have been earning ten times as much as they might get at home. Simultaneously, the U.S. is pulling a quarter of its 24,000 men out of the Philippines, and firing local employees. Peace is particular hell to the Communist Huk insurgents. Through a front company-and discreet payoffs-they had invested their surplus cash in a large housing project near Clark Air Force Base, where U.S. forces are being pared back. SOUTH KOREA sent 50,000 troops to Viet Nam, and in the past four years has collected $542 million in U.S. military contracts and supplies...