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...Nixon Administration remained unchanged (see box page 12). While mulling his choice for Vice President and the reorganization of the Executive Branch, he welcomed a remarkably large and varied array of visitors to the White House-Congressmen and Senators, mayors, Governors, labor leaders-as if to demonstrate at the outset his vow to create an "open" presidency...
...outset, a wealthy and evil man named Farquarson lies dying in his mansion in Lake Forest, Ill. Years ago he railroaded his redundant wife into a mental institution, where she had a son by another inmate. Said inmate, a violent man named Helenowski, vowed deadly vengeance on the world. As the novel begins he has escaped and is busy killing people...
HEMPHILL announces his biases at the outset of The Good Old Boys: He believes, probably correctly, that the South as a distinct and different part of America is dying, and that his job is to chronicle what's left of it. He writes about sports, failure, country music, religion and small-town life but for the most part avoids sounding like he's spouting the standard Southern cliches. His subject matter is "Real Southy" enough to warm any New York magazine editor's heart, to be sure, but Hemphill consistently succeeds at writing with a deep and genuine feeling...
...coverage of President Nixon's visit to Khatyn, the village near Minsk where 149 Byelorussians perished at the hand of the Nazis, the press ignored another massacre not far away. In Katyn, near Smolensk, more than 4,000 Polish officers taken prisoner by the Russians at the outset of the war were executed by NKVD troops in April...
...June 24). The nation's 17% annual inflation rate and $10.5 billion foreign debt are so serious that only the use of Italy's gold reserves as loan collateral has shored up the country's credit rating. The situation called for emergency action, but at the outset last week the Christian Democrats and Socialists, the dominant partners, still could not resolve the impasse that had brought the coalition to the edge of collapse. They differed bitterly on the single issue of a national credit squeeze. Christian Democrats wanted to keep credit tight to stem inflation. The Socialists...