Word: friendlys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about $3,000 to $17,500. Turner has four children and got an official salary of only $11,650, but for all of his cars, houses and business properties, he had aroused little suspicion. "It wasn't hard to believe he could accumulate all those things," said a friend, "because he was an operating fool. He always had something going." Turner has little going now. Police impounded his modest savings account, then scoured his home and confiscated everything of value, including his wife's typewriter and bowling club treasury...
Even if the Arab states should crack down, the fedayeen now have a powerful outside friend, China, which has offered them "full and unqualified support" and "volunteers" if needed. Last week China seemed closer still to getting a substantial foothold in the Middle East. The government of Syria, evidently angered at Russia's slowdown in arms deliveries, dispatched to Peking a delegation headed by Chief of Staff Major General Mustafa Tlas. One possible result of that mission would be an agreement to supply Syria with arms, thereby giving Peking its first substantial influence over a Middle East government...
...friend, Harvard Critic Harry Levin, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel written in English, was published. A haunting, accomplished and entirely Nabokovian novel about a man who loses his own identity trying to write the fictional biography of his lost brother, it appeared almost unnoticed. By the time he reached Cornell he had published Bend Sinister (1947), a study of a police state, parts of Speak, Memory, one of the most beautiful autobiographies in English. Yet he was barely known on campus as a man of letters, much less a literary genius...
Richard Wellington McLaren likes to tell a story that says a great deal about his main concern as Nixon's chief trustbuster. There was an executive whose firm had been taken over by a con glomerate. Wrote the executive to a friend: "You ask me what it's like to work for a conglomerate? Well, it's just like being a mushroom. First, they keep you in the dark for months. Then they throw dung all over you. Then they...
Just then another friend of George's came in to see him, and I had to leave. I grabbed George's hand. "Take care of yourself, George...