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...uncommon amount of cash has floated in on nearly every swell of the Watergate mess; some of it inevitably has come to the lawyers. Conspirator E. Howard Hunt, for one, gave his lawyer $25,000 in $100 bills as partial payment of legal fees. Conspirator James McCord claims to have paid his attorney the same amount in the same way. The size of those fees, however, is thought to be minimal compared with some others. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt, a voluble, flamboyant and highly skilled criminal specialist who represented four of the original defendants, charged them $125,000 even...
...Strauss), plus an orchestral tone that is big and red-blooded but not as luxuriant, say, as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. As much as he relishes the Sequoia-like majesty of the Chicago's brass section, and its evergreen forest of strings, Solti is equally partial to the meadowed tranquillity of the wood winds. The delicate lyricism he conjures up between oboe and English horn in the pastoral movement of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique would be welcome at a chamber music recital. Yet for all his romantic predilections, Solti expertly manipulates the arcane configurations of such...
...because Cheever and his creations are mainly so tradition-bound, his chronicles of disorder and lack of faith make the needs for faith and order cry out even louder. And Cheever is such a consistently honest and witty writer, carefully building up his characters through dialogue and their own partial vision of the world, and then thrusting them up against unexpected circumstance, that it is impossible to read his stories without admiration for his craft and appreciation for the truths he does uncover...
Malik later set off another brisk diplomatic exchange when he noted that the Israelis felt "nearer than any other people to God." He added: "I am an atheist but I do not believe God would be so partial." Rapping the table with his pipe, the Israeli Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, shouted: "I do not believe that the Security Council should be a forum for the kind of slander and abuses of any people's faith we heard just now from Ambassador Malik!" Tekoah then proceeded to bring up the Soviet Union's prewar pact with Nazi Germany, which drew...
...fight what seemed like an attempt at Government censorship. Several members of the CPB, including Chairman Thomas Curtis, a former Republican Congressman from Missouri, finally agreed to an elaborate compromise that would have allowed the CPB control over all Government-funded programs but would have given it only partial control over other programs...