Word: krafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precarious balance by opposing their craziness to the paranoia of the outside city. There is Walter, an amateur Polish historian, whose East Village flat is filled to the ceiling with grimy bales of newspaper, all destined to be cross-indexed and given to a university in Warsaw; Dulcie Kraft, a Texas scientologist; Beamer, a novelist writing a book about morning sickness, "privately printed and sent only to monasteries"; Orville, a pot dealer and "passing student of Eastern cosmic consciousness...
...left Cambridge to assume his present post in January 1969. Joseph Kraft, a columnist who has known Kissinger for 15 years, writes in the current issue of Harper's, "It is perhaps not too much to say that he is the second most powerful man in the world...
...American embassy is going through the throes of reorganization and self-doubt. Located in former servants' quarters behind a modest villa occupied by Chargé d'Affaires Lloyd M. Rives, the embassy is in a sullen mood. Columnist Joseph Kraft had written a devastating article about the military attache, Colonel William Pietsch, 47, accusing him of not knowing what is going on. That same weekend, after only a month or so in the country, Pietsch was hastily pulled back to the Pentagon...
...when Zubin hit it, they hit it too. When the rest of the orchestra said "Bleep," the violins joined in. When they were required to do fey finger snaps over their heads, they complied. When asked to belch, literally, they drew the line and said "Blurp." When Percussionist William Kraft, dutifully following the score, fired a popgun, they played on unblinking. Meanwhile, platformed six feet above the orchestra, the Mothers were lullabying away at some of their "greatest hits," like Lumpy Gravy, Duke of Prunes and Who Needs the Peace Corps. Then, everyone in the orchestra suddenly screamed, one final...
Died. Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish-born movie and TV star (The Farmer's Daughter); of an overdose of barbiturates; in Hollywood. A onetime chorus girl, she played TV roles in Studio One and Kraft Theater productions in the mid-1950s, won notice in Hollywood, where she appeared opposite Bing Crosby in Man on Fire, and went on to star in many more films, most recently A Dream of Kings...