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...Gulag Archipelago Firsthand. A one-man show with Yaakov Khantsis, featuring a simultaneous Yiddish translation. In the Leighton Room of Phillips Brooks House, November 20, at 6:45 p.m. Admission free...
...Ford's choice as CIA director, is in a similar situation. In his brief, unremarkable diplomatic career, he has served for two years as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and spent the past 13 months as chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. But he has no firsthand knowledge of the CIA, its operations or the investigations that have rocked the agency for nearly a year...
...Born to Run. The disparity between the wild reaction to his live performances and the more subdued, respectful reception of his records had to be cleared up. Landau soon signed on as co-producer of the new album and began to find out about some of the problems firsthand...
...light of this most recent Bengali revolution, it is this ugly side of the Bengali nature, this love for firsthand violence, coupled with their feeling toward their government, which makes things look bleak for the future. The only way the nation can feed 300 million people (a population it may well have in a generation or two) is by organizing an effective national development program. But such a program can't be organized because no one trusts the government (with good reason) or wants to work with it. If no one works with it, present inequalities will stay...
Dwight Eisenhower had less trouble with these impulses than any modern President. As one of the world's most renowned soldiers, he did not have to prove anything to himself or anybody else about his courage. He did go to Korea for a firsthand look at that messy war, but for the most part he avoided any public posturing. He did not go to Little Rock and lead black children through angry crowds, as some people wanted him to do in the nation's first school integration crisis. When his advance team ran into protests in Japan...