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...Schecter has his own private talks with his old professor onoccasion, but he naturally had no hint in advance of Kis singer's dramatic trip to China. Like the other correspondents in the pressroom of the San Clemente Inn, he could only speculate about what the President would say when the speech was announced. Schecter flew by helicopter to the Burbank television studio where the President spoke, and was waiting outside when Nixon posed briefly for photographers. The talk turned to dinner, and Schecter suggested a Chinese restaurant. "That's an idea," said the President. Perino...
...though the World Boxing Association and other boxing authorities began moving last week to restore him to the ranks of the officially recognized, none offered even a hint of apology. Asked if he would sue to recover some of the money he might have made during his 31 years as a boxing outcast, Ali quietly said no. "They only did what they thought was right at the time," he explained. "I did what I thought was right. That was all. I can't condemn them...
...Knight chain interested in the papers? Then it would have to agree that it would protect them against Government seizure. The editor consented and told his Washington bureau chief, Robert Boyd, to expect a long-distance call. The stranger telephoned Boyd several times, each time offering a hint as to where the secret documents might be found. "It was like a treasure hunt," explained one editor...
...kibbutz in Israel? The geography might hint so: golden hills, oak trees and cypresses, pepper trees and eucalyptus. In fact, the setting is half a world away from the Galilean landscape it resembles-in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains of California, just 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Many of the devoted Sabbath worshipers are in fact ordinary young Jewish Americans, thoroughly the children of their secular culture. They come from homes where Hebrew is virtually unknown, where the Sabbath is observed only perfunctorily if at all, where a kosher kitchen is only a half-remembered custom sometimes...
...through the cylinders, the ionized gas lights up-rose-white, orange, deep blues, greens and purples. By controlling the gas flow, Harrison produces extraordinary changes of form in the light-bubbles, disks, even artificial lightning. The effect is solemn and exquisitely meditative; it is also wholly pictorial, without a hint of gimmickry. The room is Harrison's private homage to Mark Rothko: "I made a very specific reference to him," he says. "This was my way of acknowledging a man who I thought was involved in a kind of magnificent and very lonely vision...