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...piling up in Switzerland, where he cannot get at them. As word of his plight spread, some unusual Samaritans offered to help. First came Hollywood Writer Albert Maltz, once jailed and blacklisted for refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Communist. Maltz said that the Soviets owe him some $34,000 in royalties on his writing (The Cross and the Arrow), and should pay it all to Solzhenitsyn, "an incredible human being, one of the moral giants." Then came two Pulitzer-prizewinning novelists, Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) and Bernard Maiamud (The Fixer...
About 80% of the village's Christians are Eastern Rite (Melchite) Catholics who owe allegiance to Rome; the remaining 20% are Greek Orthodox and are loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. There are also about 80 Moslems in the village, all members of the Diab family. For years the Diabs sought to build a mosque. But every time they began construction, the Christians would destroy by night what the Diabs had built by day. The Diabs finally got official protection to build their mosque in 1958. "They put it right beside the police station," reports one young resident...
Most of the new men owe their eminence to Nixon, by and large; they lack powerful constituencies to fall back on if they happen to run afoul of the President. The most important of the jobs goes to Boston Brahmin Elliot Richardson, who moved from HEW to Secretary of Defense, a post that will fully test his vaunted administrative skills. A combination of shrewdness and steadfastness under fire is expected to pull him through. He sees eye to eye with Henry Kissinger and is not likely to offer any rebuffs on foreign policy. While he lacks the clubby relations with...
...some H-shaped houses, he separated the daytime areas-kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular "long" houses, a central kitchen and bathrooms divide living from sleeping quarters. Hardly a small modern house now exists in the U.S. that does not owe some debt to Breuer's sensitivity to human habit...
...might be months before it (the case) comes to a hearing," Loss said. "He's asking for around $100,000, and we don't think we owe him anything...