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...side and thus harden diplomatic positions. Kissinger and Dobrynin sought a cease-fire resolution that would also create machinery for direct negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The diplomats recognized, of course, that no such resolution would be effective until the combatants were ready for it. Kissinger was kept closely informed of Israeli attitudes toward such a prospect by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly...
Although the U.S. has terminated its worldwide military alert, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger '50 said yesterday that most U.S. military units would be kept ready until Russia's forces returned to normal...
SINCE 1966, the hiring and firing of city managers has dominated the political scene in Cambridge. Before that everything was kept in order by the city's boss figure, Edward A. Crane '35, and his hand-picked city manger, John J. Curry '19. But Crane's one-man rule resulted in mutiny. A coalition of liberal and independent councilors ousted Curry and hired Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 in February 1966. DeGuglielmo lasted only through the next election and was fired in January 1968. The Council embarked on an extensive search for a replacement and finally came up with James...
...chord in all of us. But his skill, or at least his elusiveness which passes for subtlety, started to crumble with his last album, Harvest. In Journey Through the Past, it breaks down altogether; Young wields images like a lumberjack swings an ax. Any self-respecting director would have kept such nonsense out of public theaters...
...idol was Napoleon. He kept a little statue of the Emperor on his writing desk for inspiration. Balzac's opinion of his own worth was certainly Napoleonic: "I have the most extraordinary character. I am astonished by nothing more than myself." His goal was to do with his pen what Bonaparte had done with the sword. He succeeded. As V.S. Pritchett says, "His fecundity throbs, his power of documentation, his ubiquity as a novelist are extraordinary. There is the spry, pungent and pervasive sense that, in any scene, he was there and in the flesh...