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...when he is criticized in the press. After the New York Times began to lambaste him for his policies in Viet Nam, Johnson ordered Vice President Humphrey and U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Maxwell Taylor to make a special trip to discuss the situation with John Oakes, editorial-page editor of the Times. But the Times continued its criticism. Johnson tried to get other top Administration men to talk to Oakes. Finally, one top official told him: "No, Mr. President, I won't go to the Times. I've got more important things to do right...
...dressmaking for the piecework of quilts. By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit of historic counterpanes at New Jersey's Newark Museum (see opposite page), the very nature of quilting, whether applique or piecework, required fancy sewing, such as feather, catch, cross-and kensington stitching, that few seamstresses know today...
...Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-Ping attending, Bucharest had been billed as a head-on Sino-Soviet verbal slugfest. But the Rumanians attached "keep quiet" stickers to each invitation, and the result was a collection of docile guests whose most exciting time at the meeting was a five-hour, 93-page declaration of independence by their host, Ceausescu, that went considerably beyond anything Gheorghiu-Dej ever bruited...
Last April the emergency committee, which is sponsored by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, took a two-page ad in the New York Times to proclaim: MR. PRESIDENT: IN THE NAME OF GOD, STOP IT! Many of its members showed up in Washington a month later for a mass vigil at the Pentagon, protesting escalation of the Viet...
This is Le Carré's dark point, struck like a funeral bell on nearly every page of this book. Leiser is doomed. He descends the hill to foreordained failure in his mission, sensing that those whom he wants to trust will, if it comes to that, abandon him. He has all the significance of a pawn, played and sacrificed in a game that itself has no meaning...