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...Senator J. William, whose Foreign Relations Committee drafted the 1966 law that does not permit officials or their families to accept gifts worth more than $50. The greatest surprise came when Hubert Humphrey turned in a 7.9 carat diamond estimated to be worth more than $100,000. Presented to Muriel Humphrey in 1968 by Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko, along with ten leopard skins from a Somalia official, the diamond has been resting in a Minneapolis safe-deposit box. The skins were sold in 1970 for $7,500, which was given to the Louise Whitbeck Fraser School...
...ground floor in the central city has its drawbacks. There are still frequent robberies in the area; some tenants are now barring their windows and doors. Freelance Writer Gretchen Brown wards off burglars as well as Peeping Toms with heavy wooden shutters. When she first moved in, Book Designer Muriel Underwood had to discourage passers-by who tried to enter to buy the spider plants in her jumbo display window. Says she: "They thought that my home was a plant shop...
...Kennedy Airport on one of their guest appearances in the U.S. They were off to Quogue, Long Island, and then to Arizona to see Liz's mother. In July, Richard will star in a film from a Pirandello short story and Liz in the cinematic adaptation of Muriel Spark's chiller The Driver's Seat. But Richard still maintains that some day he's going to throw it all over and become an Oxford don. According to Oxford, it is up to him to choose the date...
...does the reader. "Literature of sentiment and emotion," Muriel Spark recently predicted, "must go. It cheats us into a sense of involvement with life and society." In its place she then proposed an art of "satire and ridicule." Hothouse, presumably, is an example. But precisely because it is lifeless, few people will worry about whatever the book is trying to say. Various possibilities exist. Time past is time present. Late, rich middle age, especially in Manhattan, is a kind of death in life -sterile, futile, hopelessly preoccupied with the past, most depressingly so when earlier years have been marked...
...Even Muriel Spark's set-piece satire is only sporadically rich enough to stir interest, most visibly at a production of Peter Pan staged by Elsa and Paul's homosexual son, in which all the parts are played by people over 60. "It's sick!" members of the audience shout. A collective American voice replies, "Sick is real! Sick is interesting!" Not all that interesting, though. It is far easier in fiction than in life to distinguish the quick from the dead...