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...United Nations delegation. Since then, Brooke has opposed the Administration on major issues-the SST, the ABM, the Haynsworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. Last week he announced that he will vote against confirming William Rehnquist for the court. Despite such abrasions, however, the President, as New York Senator Jacob Javits observes, "has always been intrigued by Brooke...
...powers sought some way to defuse the explosive confrontation. On Thanksgiving Day, Richard Nixon phoned Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The President discussed the Indian-Pakistani situation with the British leader, as well as their decision to meet in Bermuda in December. U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jacob Beam visited the Soviet Foreign Ministry twice during the week to urge the Russians, who had become India's chief sponsors, to help stop the fighting...
...building, an ornate pile of red brick in Manhattan's East Village, was built by Multimillionaire John Jacob Astor to house New York's first public library. It has been designated a federal landmark and, except when the janitor's dog naps on the front steps, its outward aspect is as staid as old money. Inside, however, the atmosphere combines elements of a happening, a commune and a scene from The Time of Your Life. Bicycles wheel through the stately old lobby. Plays are being rehearsed. Youths in jeans scurry around with portfolios. Music echoes from...
Unitarian Solution. The last story, Eli, the Fanatic, borders on mysticism. Its chief characters are a lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who survived a concentration camp with only the ghetto garb of a black suit, small prayer shawl and broad-brimmed...
...Yugoslav manner. I assure you, he wears them with majesty." But all desire to be public, to act in front of the camera, is gone. The group of friends and colleagues has dwindled, for Picasso has outlived them. Matisse, Braque, Gris, Léger, Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gide, Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Eluard, Breton, Sabartès, Gertrude Stein-almost all the friends and legendary figures who made the "heroic" years of the French avant-garde and constituted the tribunal against which Picasso could measure himself-are dead. "When I see you," he recently told one friend, Photographer Georges Brassai, "my first...