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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, by John Fowles. A fascinating novel that uses the tricks and turns of Victorian fiction to pound home the thesis that freedom is the natural condition...
...voluminous caftan, drinking Gatorade and complaining nonstop about the problems of being a modern sex goddess." Despite that somewhat disappointing start, Larsen spent the better part of two weeks with Raquel, observing her on the set of Myra Breckinridge, interviewing her in her dressing room and back home. He found her refreshingly pleasant and outgoing. So did Mark Goodman, who wrote this week's story and recently flew out to Los Angeles to gather his own impressions over three days with Raquel and her husband and friends. "I was impressed by her brightness," says Goodman. "She is terribly concerned...
Mathias began to get pointed mail and telephone calls from his home state. "It's not so much what they say as the way they say how extreme their disappointment will be. You get the party functionaries who threaten party revolt. You get the man who does business with the Government-and it may well be that he was instigated by someone in the Administration to call." The implication is that the man's business might be taken away if Mathias voted negatively. "A Maryland applicant for a position in the Administration was told that there...
Lodge's eagerness to return to Massachusetts had been well known for more than a month (TIME, Oct. 17). He gave "personal matters at home" as his reason for leaving. Except for a few months' leave, Lodge has seen little of his family, which includes two married sons and ten grandchildren, since he became President Kennedy's Ambassador to Viet Nam in 1963. "I am not a diplomat. I am a family man, and I miss my family," Lodge explained. Lodge probably would have stayed on if he had seen any sign of movement in the talks...
...Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, endorsed appeasement and returned home stunned and embittered after Hitler marched into Poland...