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...agency, Powers believes, was badly served, as was the central figure in his narrative, Richard Helms, who headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. A consummate professional, Helms was the proverbial man in the middle. His job was to furnish the best possible intelligence, and yet he had to contend with intense political pressures from the White House and the Pentagon. It was a high-wire act from which every CIA director has sooner or later tumbled...
...page Anton von Webern (Knopf) is the magnum opus of Scholar and Archivist Hans Moldenhauer, 72, in collaboration with his wife Rosaleen. The Moldenhauers do not set out to interpret Webern's personality or evaluate his music. But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves...
...although Straw had told Benedek that he had a buyer lined up to pay $19 million for the $15 million group of old masters, no payment appeared from that deal either. Benedek became suspicious and, he claims, asked Straw for proof of purchase and sale. Straw did not furnish it. He wrote Benedek two checks totaling $655,000; both bounced. Then he wrote three promissory notes to cover his debts and, according to Benedek, defaulted on all but a fraction of them. Most of the furniture collection, Benedek discovered later from a newspaper article in the Maine Antique Digest, corresponded...
About $250,000 will be used to furnish the inhabitants with a sanitation system...
Owner Ojjeh apparently turned a handsome profit on the sale. He bought the collection from the Wildenstein family two years ago reportedly for $7 million. At the time, he said he wanted the antiques to furnish luxury salons aboard the liner France, which he had bought with the intention at first of turning the mothballed superliner into a floating casino. Last week Ojjeh also sold the France, for $18 million, to Norwegian Shipowner Knut Kloster, who will rechristen the ship Norway and use it for Caribbean cruises...