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...West. Dame Margot Fonteyn gave her counsel and comfort. Nureyev broke into a year of solid bookings to do a special TV film with her for a BBC Christmas show. She was drawn to the American Ballet Theatre in part because its varied repertoire includes ballets by Anthony Tudor (Pillar of Fire) and Jerome Robbins (Les Noces), as well as classics. Said President Sherwin Goldman. "She is like a child in a candy store, contemplating the different styles and varieties of dance that are now available...
...picking a man from the other party for his Cabinet. Dwight Eisenhower installed Martin Durkin, head of the plumbers' union, as Secretary of Labor in 1953 partly as a gesture to his blue-collar backers. John Kennedy brought in Douglas Dillon for the Treasury because Dillon was a pillar of the New York financial community, which habitually mistrusts Democratic hands in the national till. Neither of those appointments, however, was quite the bombshell that Richard Nixon exploded last week when he strode to the lectern in the White House press-briefing room and announced that John Connally-conservative Democrat...
Martha-isms such as "Anytime you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution," and "Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline" have made her a pillar of rectitude and moral resurgence to much of conservative America, a figure of ridicule to liberals and a public embarrassment to many a traditionalist Republican...
...honor once more. Still erect at 78, the old Lion of Judah finally arrived in Rome last week for a nine-day visit marking the symbolic reconciliation of the two countries. No more hard feelings -but no obelisk either. So far, Rome has made no move to return the pillar, and the only compensation the King of Kings seems likely to get was the state banquet and immense reception held in his honor at the Quirinale Palace...
...worst bargain on the street represents a pillar of the neighborhood's economy: pornographic magazines-20 to 35 pages of sexually explicit pictures for $3 and up-and high-priced peep shows, strip joints and "adult" movies. Fed by a clientele that includes hustlers, briefcase-carrying businessmen and tourists, the street is riding a sex boom strong enough to pay the rent on some of the city's most expensive real estate. As restrictions have relaxed, the pornography market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles...