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Jane Fonda, champion of the oppressed, last week came to the defense of another minority group. In Manhattan to film Klute, in which she plays a call girl, Jane accompanied an authentic prostitute to pick-up bars to observe the action firsthand. She quickly developed empathy for women who work the streets. "They are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions and competition," said Jane. "These ladies are saying out front, 'We want the goods too; so we'll do what other women do, but we'll get paid...
...guises and disguises of ambition, the glint of fever in the eye when a man is going for the Big Apple, the way a New Man on the make can use the old steppingstones (Cambridge common room, St. James's club) - all this Snow knows with firsthand certainty. For Snow, after all, is one of those who made it: the son of a shoe-factory clerk who became a Cambridge don and a Parliamentary Secretary. Sir Charles Percy Snow. A baron! Snow's heroes are the deserving successes: the realists. How could it be otherwise? They...
Tyrmand is particularly distressed by Americans who call for revolution. He lavishes on them the kind of contempt that can issue only from someone who has known revolution firsthand. Tyrmand, of course, takes words with a deadly seriousness because he knows that in a totalitarian state they can lead to death when used too freely. In America, revolutionary chatter seems both careless and frivolous...
...principal complaint against the entire palace guard that surrounds Nixon. It is true enough that the loudest complainers are those whom Nixon does not see. but it can well be argued that their differing views are precisely what he needs to hear in order to grasp reality firsthand. What some have called "the triumph of the advance men" has left many open wounds all over town. Says one Nixon aide: "When you come into the White House after eight years on the other side, you bring in people who are bright but not experienced in Government?especially in protocol...
...this month, on his sixth visit to Indochina, Dudman left Saigon in a turquoise scout car for a firsthand look at developments across the Cambodian border in Svay Rieng province and perhaps Phnom-Penh. Driving the car was Michael Morrow, 24, a founder and correspondent of Dispatch News Service, the tiny agency that distributed Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer-prizewinning story on My Lai. Between the two men sat Elizabeth Ann Pond, 33, on leave from her job as Viet Nam correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...