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...secretary who has won a sudden but solid reputation in the Bellini-Donizetti territory that Callas calls her own. Last week Soprano Sutherland, 33, was appearing at Britain's stylish Glyndebourne Festival in Bellini's I Puritani. On the lawn at intermission, as they were consuming their hamper-packed chicken-in-aspic suppers, members of the black-tied audience buzzed that Joan could already stand comparison with the incomparable Maria...
...visualize a Utopian chain of hospitals and clinics devoted to the 'treatment' of every individual who breaks the law." Habitual offenders, Dr. Bolter argued, are psychopaths, and nothing can be done with them except keep them in penal institutions; in mental hospitals they are misfits and hamper the treatment of other patients. "Psychiatrists," said...
Would the stopping of U.S. underground tests hamper development and refinement of small nuclear devices...
...carapace of reserve Pat Nixon carries the ambitions and anxieties of any other woman. She worries about her children and gives herself wholeheartedly to them during the 10% sliver of private life. (Once, when a withering Washington heat wave threatened a promised Sunday picnic. Pat simply moved the lunch hamper and the family to the floor of Dick Nixon's air-conditioned office and carried on from there.) Recently a young friend asked about the rigors of public life. Pat Nixon's eyes suddenly filled with tears. ''I've given up everything I ever loved...
...Rockefeller, long interested and involved in Latin America (through family holdings in Venezuela's largest corporation, Creole Petroleum), urges the U.S. to take "steps to bring about the ultimate goal of Western Hemisphere economic union" to create "the greatest free-trading area in the world." Tariffs and quotas hamper trade throughout the Americas; eliminating or reducing them could touch off a burst of healthful commerce...