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...plush San Francisco suburb, where Mom smothered him with heaping portions of maternal concern. A guitarist and songwriter, he is anxious to make it on his own, maybe put together a nightclub act. Everyone is impressed with his songs and with his matter-of-fact courage about his handicap. "You're a beautiful person, inside and out," gushes the girl next door, who rapidly graduates to roommate status...
Despite this considerable handicap, the Loeb production is a powerful rendition of an immensely powerful play...
...only other creatures up and about in Tokyo's fashionable Mejiro neighborhood each day at 5:30 when Tanaka arises. Still, there is nothing humble about his house: a 24-room mansion surrounded by gardens and the putting green on which Tanaka tries to improve his 18-handicap golf. No other politician in Tokyo has anything to compare with Tanaka's spread, but he protests that he needs the space. "A politician," he says, "is like a machine designed to meet as many people as possible...
...keep fit, Knowles plays squash and golf at his several clubs. (Membership in ethnically exclusive clubs would have been a handicap at Boston University, and Knowles says that he would have resigned from them if necessary.) He gave up cigarettes years ago, now smokes only an occasional ceremonial cigar. Knowles is a determined part-time author. He first wrote technical medical books, has recently finished a collection of essays on health care, and is planning his next opus on "what the '60s and '70s mean to this country." To an extensive library of American history and the social...
...trouble is that no one really knows for certain. Jets cover the world so swiftly that guerrillas can gather together almost anywhere on short notice. Paris, Prague, East Berlin and Algiers, along with Beirut, are said to be favorite cities. Another handicap as far as police are concerned is that most of the groups are small and the members know one another. Infiltration, as a result, is almost impossible...