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...star billing, the part is one of the strongest and most complex on Broadway, and Grey treasures it as if it were a long-awaited inheritance. With his wife Jo, he has worked out a gradually intensifying makeup scheme that transforms his face from mere decadence at the outset to a gaping death's head by the end. In the desperate name of gaiety, he paws the girls, dons tights and wigs to join the chorus line, and dances with an all-but-naked fake gorilla...
...difficult to see at the outset where all this money can be found. Surely a considerable part of it will have to come from agencies of the Federal Government. There are already applications before the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. And the case will be presented to private welfare foundations, to corporations with a known concern for science, and also to alumni and to other individuals. The task of securing the funds for this ambitious program will require careful organization and a sustained effort which is only now beginning to take shape...
While Syria is not a Communist state, an increasing number of far-leftists are being brought into the regime, which already has one Communist minister. At the outset, Jadid and his colleagues felt spiritually more attuned to Red China than to Russia. But Peking's resources are severely limited; although China bought a third of Syria's 1966 cotton crop with convertible sterling, Moscow offered more pragmatic rewards for a longer term. The Soviets last month agreed to finance nearly half the cost of a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates-Syria's answer to Aswan...
Raising the Ceiling. The reason is obvious. His congressional critics, buttressed by 47 newly elected Republicans, stand ready to poleax any overambitious new measures. Moreover, they will have two opportunities to express their displeasure with his economic policies at the very outset of the session. One will present itself when the President asks for a supplementary appropriation for Viet Nam estimated at $15 billion -rather than the $9 billion or $10 billion that he predicted only last month. Another will arise when he asks Congress to raise the $330 billion ceiling on the national debt. Because Johnson was reluctant...
From Nora, Joyce demanded continual proofs of love. The major one, right at the outset, was that she leave Ireland with him as his mistress in 1904. They were finally married in 1931, but only to make sure that Joyce's family could legally claim his estate. Nora gave in full measure the affection and companionship that Joyce so desperately needed, but she could make nothing of his work. The first copy of Ulysses was given Nora, but she never got around to reading the book...