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Somewhat reluctantly, Sampson revealed that no fewer than 21 people are now serving Nixon on their normal Government salaries, amounting to $450,000 a year. They include his personal maid and valet, as well as such well-paid aides as Ziegler ($42,500), Speechwriter Raymond K. Price Jr. ($40,000) and Secretary Rose Mary Woods ($36,000). In addition, all of the former Washington-based employees now assigned to Nixon draw $40 a day for meals and lodging. Sampson estimated that Secret Service protection of the ex-President will cost an additional $622,000 a year...
...years, the Rockefellers had five children. Rodman, 42, is the president of International Business Economy Corp., a family concern that helps local businesses get started in Latin America and other countries. Steven, 38, a religion instructor at Middlebury College in Vermont, caused a stir when he married a household maid, Anne Marie Rasmussen, in 1959. They were divorced a decade later. Ann, 40, now legally separated from her second husband, works for the Rockefeller Family Fund in Manhattan. Mary, 36, divorced from her first husband, is married to Thomas Morgan, onetime press secretary to former New York City Mayor John...
...family. Now the East Room was filled again with 250 guests, a few of them still red-eyed from weeping at the emotional Nixon farewell. But there were many new faces, Republican and Democratic alike: the guest list included the entire Michigan congressional delegation, Ford's staff, friends, his maid and driver and all eleven of the incumbent Congressmen who were first elected with Ford...
Jaromil indeed becomes a poet. He tries to spy on the maid as she takes her bath, and fails, but produces a vivid poem about his "aquatic love." The genius of lyric poetry, Kundera observes, "is the genius of inexperience ... We can scoff at the poet's lack of maturity, but there is something amazing about him too. His words sparkle with droplets that come from the heart, and that gives his verse the luster of beauty. These magic dewdrops need not be stimulated by real life events. On the contrary, we suspect that the poet sometimes squeezes...
Conductor Bernardi has a discreet, controlled way with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...