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...entries and bag jobs. Sullivan sympathized with the committee's objectives. Hoover, although chairman, firmly dissented. The White House ordered the suggested policies implemented anyway, but Hoover, appealing to Mitchell, managed to have the White House directive withdrawn. Hoover was infuriated by Sullivan's later attempt to loosen the restrictions he had ordered...
...rarity for Broadway musicals. The musical score has been criticized for being something less, or more, than rock. It is, in fact, an elegant pastiche, swiftly paced and highly styled, that does not sound like show music but has something for everybody: a curtain-raising blues number to loosen up the audience, a winsome torch song sung to the sleeping Jesus by an awed Mary Magdalene, and a campy Charleston-like piece that allows King Herod, outrageously turned out as a transvestite, to make fun of Jesus: "Prove to me that you're no fool, walk across my swimming pool...
...immediate effect was a wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev...
...nearby visitors' area for a conference with a lawyer. Before leaving the Adjustment Center, Jackson was made to strip for a thorough "skin search," a regular routine for Adjustment Center inmates. As was usual during such a search, his thick Afro-style hair was briskly rubbed to loosen any contraband that might be concealed there...
...Administration has set up a wage board in the construction trade, which has helped bring construction labor increases down from 20% last year to about 10% in recent months. It has proposed lower minimum wages for the young to help them get jobs. It is readying measures to loosen regulation and introduce more competition in the transportation industry. Last week the President indicated that he would veto a bill to raise wages for Government blue-collar workers. Yet Nixon and his aides are openly disappointed that the rate of inflation has not come down further and faster, and they show...