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...false wife." Raven's Glencora is less long-winded. "I would rather be beaten by Burgo Fitzgerald," she says, "than kissed by any other man." Perhaps Raven's greatest liberty, however, has been his emphasis on the Pallisers, particularly Glencora, among the novels' myriad families and alliances. Explains Raven: "The heroine of a television series must never be less than prominent...
...lamp and the electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome as our technology proliferates and refines more and more unimagined, seemingly irrelevant wants. Driven by "needs" for the unnecessary, we remain impotent to conjure the needs away. Our Aladdin's lamp of technology makes myriad new genii appear, but cannot make them disappear. The automobile - despite all we have learned of its diabolism - cannot be conjured away. The most we seem able to do is to make futile efforts to appease the automobile -by building parking temples on choice urban real estate and by deferring...
...special time and place. For technology aims to dilute and immunize us against the peculiar chances, perils and opportunities of our natural climate, our raw landscape. The snowmobile makes a steep mountain slope or the tongue of a glacier just another highway. Our America has been blessed by a myriad variety of landscapes. But whether we are on the mountaintop, in the desert, on shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand, the snow, the water. Our roots, such as they are, grow in an antiseptic hydroponic solution. Instead of enjoying...
Poised and principled member of myriad commissions and civic groups . . . Chosen by President Lyndon Johnson as Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1965-67, served as an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly . . . Chairman of Credentials Committee for 1972 Democratic National Convention; criticized by some at the time as being too much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris...
...prime, Hughes was the archetypal American hero ?the daring aviator and indefatigable tinkerer who spurred science to new horizons. He owned one of the most crucial defense firms in the U.S. (Hughes Aircraft), a flag-carrying airline (TWA) and myriad companies whose prosperity guaranteed the welfare of dozens of communities. Even during the hidden penthouse years, Hughes exercised great influence at the highest levels of Government. As he wasted away in the Desert Inn, the CIA used him for a cover in an operation fraught with serious international repercussions...