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...when he clears his throat, adjusts the pillow seat that makes him look taller on camera, and thumbs the stack of index cards before him, Spivak and Meet the Press will be celebrating 25 years on television. At 72, he is the longest-lived personality on network TV, a monument to durability in a field where ten or twelve years can be counted a full career...
...idea was to make the biggest, costliest and most widely seen sports spectacular in history an "intimate affair." It seems an improbable feat, but the organizers of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich were resolved to resist "gargantuism," to emphasize the "human scale," and to build an "anti-monument sports complex" in a green setting with a "minimum of travel." Most important for a community that other Germans call "Weltstadt mit Herz" (Metropolis with a Heart) there must be a "touch of gaiety in the air." The goal, says Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic Committee, is "a more...
Beyond such fundamental matters of temperament and tone, some specific second-term strategies and policies are already discernible. Nixon's enduring interest is foreign affairs, and in conducting them he aims toward an "enduring monument of his Presidency," says Henry Kissinger with his characteristic modesty. In his first term, observes the President's foreign-policy architect, "the President swept away the previous structure of foreign policy and laid new foundations. In his second term he will put up the house." Elements: an end to the war, the diplomatic recognition of China, major trade and arms agreements with...
...Hiroshima, looking at the photographs of the devastation to the people and the city as a taped American voice guides them. The voice has a removed, almost boastful tone of facts-and-figures, like the voice that accompanies one in the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument. Director Francine Parker chose to rush through the tour, eager to get back to the stage, but that brief sequence (unless the voice too was staged) said more about a disregard for life than any number of song-and-dance routines...
...there won't be one, but . . . it's pos sible that one will be found in a final sweep of the battlefield." Seller added: "If not, the tomb will not be used." Perhaps, given the special agony and futility of the Viet Nam War, some sort of monument should be erected to the men who died there - known...