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Huang's contact with Americans dates from the mid-1930s, when he studied at U.S.-supported Yenching University in Peking. In 1944, he served as a Communist liaison officer to the U.S. military mission in Yenan. There he charmed Americans with his affability-as well as his ability to win at Monopoly...
Understandably, he gave himself a week's vacation between jobs, but after three weeks, his only contact with the dean's office on an administrative level was to maintain liaison with his secretary and to find a successor. His handling of this question provided an important gauge of Bok as an adminis...
This marshaling of material lends authority to the biography on mere speculations when, with exquisite tact, the author mildly reproaches Hornblower for infidelities to his wife, Lady Barbara (sister of the Duke of Wellington), or speculates that she, too, may have enjoyed a brief liaison with Baron von Neffzer in Vienna in 1815-when Hornblower and the Vicomtesse de Graçay were temporarily holding Bonaparte's regulars at bay along the Loire. A similar tact touches Professor Parkinson's handling of the then Lieutenant Hornblower's heretofore unsuspected murder of Captain David Sawyer (H.M.S. Renown...
...Leader Gerald Ford and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends went to the White House to report that a vote on the canceling appropriation might be deftly turned to revive the plane. "It would be a great thing to get this done," President Nixon told them. The President set his congressional liaison office to work on the project, but the real persuasion was accomplished by Ford and Arends, with help from House Speaker Carl Albert and lobbyists for organized labor...
What he yearns for is a therapeutic attachment for his gadget so that he can cure as well as diagnose. Before long, he is in the hands of an ultramodern devil named Art Immelmann, who claims to be the liaison man for the somehow still-functioning Rockefeller-Ford-Carnegie foundations. Art explains that all three are anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics...