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...short, the government wants Popkin to act as an investigator for its Internal Security Division--a role specifically condemned by Supreme Court Justice Powell in the court's otherwise appalling decisions on press freedom last summer. We laud Popkin's courage in refusing to be a party to such shenanigans...
Marriage Revealed. Peter Ustinov, 51, Britain's bearish author, director, raconteur and two-time Academy Award winner for acting (Spartacus in 1960, Topkapi in 1964); and Helene du-Laud-Allemans, French-born journalist; he for the third time, she for the first; on June 17 on Corsica. In declining to give his bride's age, Ustinov cracked: "She is younger than I am, but not so young as to make marriage to an elderly gentleman ridiculous...
...season will send, and receive, at least 15 cards. That means the bells of stationery store cash registers will ring up U.S. sales of $300 million this Christmas−glad tidings to about 200 card companies. Like the automakers, the card publishers alter their models annually. Some cards now laud the joys of grass−not the kind that suburbanites mow. Others pay jovial tribute to Women's Lib: YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS AND FOR ONE THING SHE IS FAT. The themes of "love" and "youth"−perhaps as an indirect tribute to Mr. Agnew...
What I can laud is the warm sense of cooperation which seemed to motivate the actors in these two parables of verbal aggression. They were acting in overwrought sets and from a scrawny conceptual framework. But they were acting at and with each other, in ways one could sense were both familiar and fun. Perhaps this, more than artistic polish, is what the HTC has to offer; and I intend the remark not in denigration...
...money for worthwhile domestic causes, but money needed elsewhere must be used to help straighten out lives ruined by mind-blowing, body-damaging drugs. They take up the ecological banner, and yet the Woodstock happening was an ecological nightmare. Some cry liberty for all and in the same breath laud the Viet Cong. Materialism is rejected, but as products of a materialistic society, they knowingly use and benefit from it daily. They want the war ended, but the type of protest used, I feel, has prolonged it. They think the older generation unyielding, but they won't budge from...