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...abroad of his book, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-largely because the answer was an emphatic no. Last week Amalrik agreed to leave the Soviet Union and accept a permanent exit visa to Israel, although neither he nor his wife are Jewish. A tough and often eccentric loner, Amalrik yielded after nearly a year of harassment that began after his release. After finding the pressures "intolerable," he decided to accept the Soviet government's longstanding offer to give him a visa to Israel-but nowhere else. His decision, he said, "was not taken freely. I didn...
Acquaintances remember Monette speaking occasionally of her fictional undergraduate days. Lucille Sprinkles recalls that Monette told her how disgusted she had been with the lesbianism of Radcliffe women. "She implied she had been a loner then," Sprinkles remembers. "Aloof," "protected," "rich," "prep-schoolish," "snooty" and "very bored and disinterested," is how others who knew her at the Business School describe...
HENRY ("Bismarck") KISSINGER, p. veteran: Claims to stand above league affiliations; even refuses to wear a uniform--but they couldn't win without him; out of the Harvard minor league system; confesses to being a loner, "I just don't like people...
...Machine Gun" Kelly at his Memphis hideout in 1933, Kelly said he surrendered rather than be killed by "G-men," a sobriquet that has adhered to agents in movies and on cereal box tops through the years. In the '30s Hoover was portrayed as a dedicated, hard-working loner who approved wiretaps only in matters of life and death. Hoover's picture was again on the cover of TIME in August of 1949, when the nation was concerned with internal security. The '40s director was observed as a dossier-keeper who carefully followed the peregrinations...
...White is usually the liveliest of the front four, L.C. Greenwood can be the quietest. "Most of the time I like to be by myself," he says. "I'm a loner. I want to lay back and live." That philosophy is reflected in almost everything unmarried L.C does, from collecting American Indian jewelry and playing cards to shunning contact during practice. "1 try to preserve myself for the game," he says. "That's when I come to play...