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Joan Collins and Farley Granger were singing. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon were singing. Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, Don Ameche and Alice Faye, Howard Keel and Jane Powell: all raised their voices in joyous song. But Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton were struck dumb, doing their best to look as if they'd just slid down a laundry chute into the Twilight Zone...
...thinking of leaving the post. Kissinger recounted in the first volume of his memoirs, White House Years (1979), his role in the impressive diplomatic achievements of Nixon's first term: the opening to China; the restoration of relations between Washington and Moscow to a more or less even keel; the beginning of the end of America's agony in Viet Nam. Now the "Grand Design " that he and Nixon had conceived to reshape international relations was beginning to materialize, and Kissinger contemplated retiring, perhaps to a fellowship at Oxford's All Souls College...
...keenly aware of its position in the international community. There are any number of models which it may follow--neutrality like Switzerland; diplomatic union with the Benelux; distasteful, though practical, subservience to the industrial giant neighbor, West Germany. But Holland is currently drifting like a ship without a keel, the captain so concerned with what is in the hold that he may soon find himself and his cargo on the rocks. If the Netherland's political history is not very old, its commercial legacy is long and distinguished, and the Dutch would do well to apply business acumen to their...
...head of anything because then you have to go to meetings and junk," says Alter, who instead signed on with Coleman as a designer and began casting about for something different to create. The result: a 33-ft. fiberglass sloop, the Hobie 33. Equipped with a retractable keel and a mast that can be easily removed for transportation, the boat is small enough to be towed behind a car on a trailer, yet large enough to sleep up to seven. The sleek vessel is priced to sail away at about $40,000, vs. as much as $70,000 for other...
...BEEN ten years and one month since Derek Bok was named president of Harvard University, and nearly ten years since he assumed office. Over the past decade, Bok has managed to keep Harvard gliding across turbulent times on an even keel. He has made himself a man of open letters, suing that ingenious and forthright method to silence critics and divert the energies of a contentious community. When the issue of Harvard's holdings in companies doing business in South Africa and a proposal to name the Kennedy School library after an American entrepreneur in South Africa threatened to alienate...