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...unless he is either a member of San Francisco's intensely exclusive Bohemian Club or a carefully selected guest, such as Barry. A persistent reporter who hoped to follow Goldwater into the woods was advised snappishly: "The only way you'll get in is disguised as Herbert Hoover." Also rigidly forbidden: television sets and women...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of how the U.S. helped rehabilitate both its enemies and allies after each world war and fed the Russians during the 1921 famine. Participants include Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, secretary to then U.S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover after World War I, and General Lucius Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany after World...
Each biography seems tailored to a specific audience. Robert (The Terrorists, Forever China) Payne, a prolific as well as a catholic writer, has produced a Book-of-the-Month selection aimed at romantics. Stefan Possony, political studies director at Stanford's Hoover Institution, will appeal most obviously to believers in the conspiratorial view of history, since his research comes largely from police and foreign office files, ranging from Japan to France, and covering mostly Lenin's life as a fugitive conspirator...
Avoid becoming second rate, cautioned Corning Glass Board Chairman Amory Houghton Jr. at Michigan's Albion College: "It is one of the most all-encompassing, intoxicating forces you'll ever come up against." Take care not to be pushy, either, added Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University economist who spoke at Duke. If anyone realizes that "you are grooming yourself for leadership, you will be considered the insufferable prig which you would be." And thus was Youth once again infused with the distilled wisdom of Age and Experience...
...Reformed Church, whose 3,000 members make it the largest church of that denomination in the U.S. He does not openly participate in party politics ("I don't believe that I should"), but he likes to read books of a political nature. Among his recent favorites: J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit and Victor Lasky's J.F.K.: the Man & the Myth. Regularly, every two weeks, he plays with a bridge club, also enjoys an occasional shrewd game of poker. "He is a percentage player, not a chance taker," says a man who has often watched...