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Curious Silence. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller moved ever closer to entry in the Oregon primary, which he now has to win just to stay in the race with Nixon. Last week 33 top Republicans gathered in his Fifth Avenue duplex to advise him on strategy. The council included Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's Governor John Chafee, New York's Mayor John Lindsay and, improbably enough, Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate, former Representative William E. Miller. All but four of the 33 counseled Rocky to declare his candidacy and begin an all-out campaign...
...past four years, Karamanlis has lived in Paris in a comfortable Bois de Boulogne duplex on funds supplied largely by wealthy Greek industrialists, but his name and words still have a magic effect in Greece. Bluntly calling the colonels "idiots" and "putschists," he blamed them for the Cyprus debacle and warned that their continued rule could lead to chaos and a rebirth of Communism in a country that "twice almost became the Viet Nam of Europe." He called on the colonels "to recognize their duty" and resign. Said he: "Greeks will not allow the maintenance of dictatorship under whatever form...
...Duplex Diplomacy. Did he mean it? As at least token proof, Russian-made MIGs?more than 100 of them?have arrived in the U.A.R. and Syria to begin replacing the estimated 400 planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate...
...fact, Podgorny's visit was almost certainly more of a political reconnaissance than a mission of condolence; it was a classic essay in the kind of duplex diplomacy at which the Russians are masters: talking on one level while acting?or failing to act?on another. Despite the noise and despite even the MIGS, the Russians were obviously playing for time. As evidenced at Holly Bush, Kosygin's visit to the U.S. was also at once a holding action and a salvage operation. Longer-range Russian tactics remained unclear?probably to the Russians themselves...
Real Work. Nowadays, between weekly trips to Harvard, where he teaches poetry, Lowell spends most of his time working at home in Manhattan. He and his wife own a West Side duplex apartment filled with books; the high living room walls are fitted with a traveling ladder. He writes in a studio, lying on a bed, composing his lines on a small pad. "It's such a miracle if you get lines that are halfway right," he once explained. "You think three times before you put a word down, and ten times about taking it out." When...