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...major sonata of Cesar Franck which concluded the program fared much better. It is a pleasant if somewhat syrupy work that continues the overt emotionalism of Liszt without any of the daring and grandeur that could make it any more than mediocre...
...victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody in the 200-yd. version. Wolf's outstanding meet was a very pleasant surprise...
Each week the 30-odd members of the U.S. Armed Forces Policy Council hear grim briefings from the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on how much conflict there is in the world. Two weeks ago, there was a pleasant surprise. Admiral Thomas H. Moorer reported that as well as he could determine, during the week of Feb. 17 to 24 "virtually nobody is shooting at anybody anyplace." Moorer went on to declare that it was "more quiet around the world last week than at any time since I have been Chairman...
...next night the dinner featured Congressman Leslie Arends, House whip from Illinois, who is also retiring. Again it was soft and pleasant. They watched Friendly Persuasion, an old movie from the book written by Jessamyn West, Nixon's cousin. And still the thought that Nixon might be forced from office, which permeated all of Washington, did not intrude...
...only political party but, as a result of his periodic Cabinet shuffles, the holder of ten ministerial portfolios, ranging from Defense to Information to Mines. From his subjects he demands ostentatious displays of devotion, for, as he once put it, "miracles enter my body." In the C.A.R.'s pleasant riverside capital of Bangui (pop. 125,000), portraits of Bokassa can be seen everywhere, even printed on men's shirts and wiggling to life on the backsides of long-skirted women...