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...payment from reaching her on time. To others, the strike brought welcome relief from business pressures. "It's wonderful not to receive any mail," said an editor employed by a New York publishing firm. "For the first time in years, I've been able to clear my desk." Critic Dwight Macdonald lamented a missing check and a manuscript stalled somewhere in the pipeline, but he concluded: "It's really rather nice not getting any mail, particularly all the mail I get soliciting for various causes...
Diana was born on Jan. 26, 1942, and raised in Dwight (pop. 3,100), a town set in the prairie cornfields of northern Illinois. Her conservative, Episcopal family is one of the community's most prominent. Her paternal great-great-grandfather established the Keeley Institute for alcoholics. Her maternal great-grandfather, W.D. Boyce, founded the American Boy Scouts. James Oughton, 55, Diana's father, is a Dartmouth graduate and restaurateur. Diana and her three sisters were cherished and deeply loved. Said her father: "The social life in Dwight has never separated adults from children. Dinner was a family...
...President Georges Pompidou last week, the salmon was blanketed with a light and creamy "Lafayette Sauce." The talks during Pompidou's three-day Washington visit were garnished with globs of the same. The Gallic leader's facile speeches were studded with admiring references to Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Dwight Eisenhower. "Your independence and your Constitution have given an unprecedented brilliance and magnetic force to liberty, to the rights of man and to democracy."' he told a joint session of Congress. In return, Richard Nixon glowed that he and his guest "talk the same language," that Lafayette "lives...
...this second outing of the season, Harvard skier Chris Ferner won the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Trophy yesterday in a jump off in a meet held at Bear Mountain...
...culture no longer seems to supply many heroes, but Middle Americans admire men like Neil Armstrong and, to some extent, Spiro Agnew. California Governor Ronald Reagan and San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa have won approval for their hard line on dissent. Before his death last year, Dwight Eisenhower was listed as the most admired man in the nation ?and Middle America cast much of the vote. In death, John Kennedy is also a hero. Ironically, Robert Kennedy had the allegiance of much of Middle America along with his constituency of blacks and the young. Whatever their...