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These moves were resented by the Iran desk, including Larry Larkin, one of its senior officers. Aware of the friction and needing the expertise of the desk's operatives, Casey offered them part of the action: they were asked to assess Ghorbanifar. Larkin first attempted to recruit Ghorbanifar as a CIA contract agent, which would put the Iranian under his control. When Ghorbanifar refused, Larkin and his colleagues set out to discredit him. This deepened Ghorbanifar's long-standing distrust...
Sexual intercourse began, as we know from Philip Larkin's famous lament, "In nineteen sixty-three/ (Which was rather late for me) -- / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ And the Beatles' first LP." It was just in time, however, for Clive James, who arrived in London from Australia in 1962 seeking literary fame, the socialist millennium, bohemian good times and the love of beautiful women, not necessarily in that order. Eventually James would become a successful Fleet Street journalist-critic and a popular panelist on British TV. But for now his ambition was "to take a lowpaying menial...
Many of the alternative weeklies have their roots in the counterculture protest papers of the 1960s, but like their readers, most of the editors these days are a bit more materialistic. The Phoenix New Times (circ. 130,000) was operated by a collective until Publisher Jim Larkin and Editor Michael Lacey bought the paper in 1977 after they had left the group. Now New Times has annual ad revenues of $6.2 million. Says Larkin: "We've gone from being a collective to being champions of free enterprise...
Buchsbaum, Harvard's second racquet, crushed Carolyn Larkin in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1. And Smith, playing in the third slot, stifled Melany Rosencrantz...
...procession followed a rally at which area feminist leaders, students, and faculty members discussed violence against women. Local recording artist Patti Larkin appeared in a benefit performance along with the Radcliffe Pitches and Toba E. Spitzer...