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...Time of Your Life, Camino Real, Beggar on Horseback, plus Sam Shepard's new play, Operation Sidewinder, a wild satire of the contemporary U.S. scene, featuring an Air Force computer in the form of a sidewinder rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered life. Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers brings three women into the life of a paunchy seafood restaurateur (James Coco). After six hits in a row, the tantalizing question about Simon...
...last week the outsider appeared anew. Rosenthal announced in a memorandum effective Oct. 1, the Times's new foreign editor would be none other than James L. Greenfield...
...figurehead post of president of the National Assembly, had occasionally fretted aloud at the speed and enthusiasm with which his reform movement took hold in Czechoslovakia. But he did not dwell on anti-socialist dangers. On the night of the invasion, two conservative members of the Presidium presented a memorandum stating that the party was losing control of Czechoslovakia to reactionaries. Dubček and his majority on the Presidium quickly rejected it. As Dubček evidently concluded, the perils of "anti-socialism" were distinctly preferable to the economic stagnation and moral despair that have now settled on Czechoslovakia...
...each page. "I was appalled by the kind of books making enormous successes," he remembers. Rather than curse the darkness, McGrady lit upon the idea of how to succeed in bestsellerdom without really trying. He turned to his typewriter and, within a week, finished a plot outline and a memorandum that he distributed to nearly a hundred of his friends. "As one of Newsday's truly outstanding literary talents," the now-historic document began, "you are hereby officially invited to become the co-author of a bestselling novel." Each contributor would write one chapter of no fewer than...
...anything, the Nixon Administration has been less than apologetic about the practice. Last month, in a memorandum filed during the Chicago trial of eight men charged with conspiring to incite acts of violence during the Democratic National Convention, the Justice Department claimed the inherent right to bug or wiretap-without court orders-any time it felt that the "national security" was in jeopardy, As authority for this broad power, the Government cited the President's oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" from domestic subversion as well as foreign enemies. Contending that every President since Franklin Roosevelt...