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WHEN the 15 NATO Foreign Ministers assemble in Lisbon's walled Palácio das Necessidades this week, their meeting may prove as important as any since the alliance's present form was set in 1952-also in Lisbon. Only a few weeks ago, the Ministers seemed destined to cover routine and well-traveled ground. But suddenly, some long-standing barriers to East-West negotiations have been lowered, however slightly...
...three best lyric writers this country has ever known. I find him sloppy all the time. His lyrics don't sit on the music properly. When he is just futzing around with words, he doesn't even do it neatly. He misaccents words. One example is in Pal Joey, the line in Take Him: "I know a movie executive/ Who's twice as bright." It's a good joke, but you don't misaccent a word if you want to write a good lyric. Technically it's deficient and to my ear unprofessional...
When ex-Convict James A. White settled down at his pal Harvey Jackson's house, the talk often centered on White's drug-pushing activity. Jackson was an attentive listener. So were two federal agents, one hidden in Jackson's kitchen closet, the other outside his home in Chicago...
...kids, it's Howdy Doody time. Your old television pal has been dusted off for two shows Sunday night in Sanders Theatre along with Buffalo Bob. But, alas, Clarabelle will be absent...
...Sanchezes, who have no children, came to work for the Nixons shortly before the 1962 California gubernatorial election. Nixon Pal Bebe Rebozo recommended the couple after they had been forced to leave Cuba with their wealthy Italian employer. Manolo's English was so bad in the beginning that Nixon often had to leave notes for Fina to translate...