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...bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest - invited by a friend of his wife's - comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite chat - even though Schlesinger considers Hiss to be just about as guilty as Nixon said he was long years before...
...from the starting bell. Lazio attacked Clinton on her lack of a record. Clinton assailed Lazio's role as Deoyt Whip under Newt Gingrich. Lazio shot back with a doozy: "You, of all people, Mrs. Clinton, should not bring up guilt by association." You almost expected the audience to hiss...
...blacks continued to score far below whites on both sections of the test, trailing by a total of 198 points. (The College Board says this is because of differences in educational opportunity.) When Muhlenberg College and Maine's Bates College stopped requiring the SAT, minority applications doubled. Says William Hiss, dean of enrollment at Bates: "Schools that use the SAT are throwing away a third of their talent...
...Life of J. Edgar Hoover" had the head of the FBI dressing up in ballgowns. If you read Summers' Nixon book more carefully (I don't urge it), you find, among other things, that the author may be among the half dozen people on earth who believe that Alger Hiss may in fact have been innocent - the victim of a Hooverian/Nixonian plot to fabricate that Woodstock typewriter. It would not surprise me to learn that Summers' next editorial project is an account of the love affair between Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles...
Does it matter that the sonic quality of the Columbia set leaves something to be desired? A little, sure. When the company last reissued these cuts in 1988 and '89, the engineers got rid of the hiss but in the process lost much of the music. Some tunes sounded as if they had been recorded in an aquarium. Now you can hear the instruments--and the hiss, alas, too. But the irresistible force that is Louis Armstrong rockets through it, as he does through all of American music...