Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more pale carbon copy of The Ugly American. Classified communiques pop up like toast at the breakfast table, a recording device is hidden in a tie clip, new leaders are found by a spin-the-bottle technique, and the real rapport between nations rests on a Jellolike foundation of friendship between Latifundia's President and the American ambassador. Despite the apparently insurmountable handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first novel that explores the personality of a South American nation while revealing the lives and characters of two strong and complex...
There are few substantial differences between their platforms, although Richard Primack does promise to support any proposal that will make Harvard "more fruitfully oriented toward friendship and love...
...Early Guerrilla. David defeated Goliath, Gale adds, because he possessed fire power-meaning a primitive but effective missile-plus "the courage, the skill and the brains to use it." David might be considered an early prototype of the socially conscious guerrilla fighter, "cultivating friendship with the local people, who were happy to have a protector against the marauding Philistine tribesmen, even if for this he demanded tribute. He foraged far and wide, bringing retribution where it was due and giving succour where it was needed." Even in one of the most tragic defeats of Hebrew history-the futile defense...
Rebozo assiduously avoids any contact with the press that might suggest self-promotion at Nixon's expense, always refuses to discuss politics. A reporter recently suggested a White House appointment and Rebozo snorted: "We've never even discussed it, and I don't expect to." His friendship with Nixon goes back to 1951, when Florida's Senator George Smathers asked Rebozo to entertain Nixon, a fellow freshman, at Key Biscayne. Rebozo took him fishing and remembers, "We just hit it off." The friendship developed, as did Nixon's habit of flying to Florida...
...concert schedule of well over 100 appearances a year. At fees that start at $7,500 for a solo appearance, this means that he makes something like a million dollars a year, including record royalties -although he coyly denies that he is rich ("Heavens, no!"). Furthermore, the travel, the friendship of the famous, the adoring crowds and the publicity are heady stimulation to someone who is instinctively a performer. "I'm not the kind of person who would want to confine himself to playing in his own salon," Cliburn admits...