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...come some way since then, and U.S. military installations round the world plan to mark the 200th anniversary this week with ceremonies and pageants. Later Army exhibits will emphasize contributions made by the military to civilian life. These include the building of the Panama Canal as well as some lesser-known examples of Army pioneering: development of freeze-dried foods and the invention of the aerosol...
Thieu's response was swift and characteristic. He had a handful of lesser-known dissidents arrested, including two who had been at the tea meeting, as well as a number of journalists and politicians who tend to support Ky. The arrests were clearly meant to frighten the bigger fish in the opposition and demonstrate that Thieu not only was still in power but also intended to remain there...
Many prominent California Jewish philanthropists and political angels are present at the dinner, Jan. 26. But lesser-known and less wealthy people are there as well. Most paid at least $250 into his campaign war chest for the privilege of attending-one reason why he beams so happily. But he looks well in any case. He has lost 12 Ibs. and fully recovered from two operations late last year-one to remove a kidney stone, the other to correct a drooping left eyelid. At 62, he looks perhaps 15 years younger...
...Destiny is one of Shaw's lesser-known plays, a "historical" drama about Napoleon and the women he loved. At the Loeb Ex, tonight...
...Rather, whose acerbic press-conference quizzing of Nixon outraged the former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon, they write, had an obsessive fear of a political threat from the liberal Ted Kennedy. The President attempted to blunt this threat with his own flock of political moderates: Arthur Burns and Pat Moynihan in the White House, former Governors George Romney, Wally Hickel and John Volpe, as well as Robert Finch, in the Cabinet. But Kennedy's accident in July 1969 eliminated Nixon...