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HELP! The kittens are climbing the Christmas tree!" The tree sways dangerously in the suburban Baltimore apartment; ornaments fly in all directions. Giggling ecstatically as they call to their mother, Andrea Rander, the girls-Lysa, 12, and Page, 6-streak across the living room and pluck the month-old kittens, Gamma, Alpha and Fluffy, from their perches in the tree. Then the evening news flashes on the TV screen. Andrea and her daughters lock into place, as if in pantomime of a film freeze frame. Henry Kissinger has met again in Paris with his North Vietnamese counterpart...
...stylistically, in the new Administration is Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, a lifelong New York Democrat with a rough-and-ready tongue and no apologies for grabbing all he can for the workingman. Nixon reached deep into the labor movement to pluck out Brennan, president of the New York City and New York State Building and Construction Trades Councils. He is the first rank-and-file union member appointed to the post since President Eisenhower chose Martin Durkin, a plumber. But Brennan speaks the President's language on many issues, especially patriotism and the Viet Nam War. His appointment...
...Yale. Every man on the Harvard team knows what is expected of him this afternoon. He will go on to Soldiers' Field to play to the bitter and faster, better football than he ever played before. Harvard intends to win, and she will not fall for lack of pluck...
...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...
Musically, Maria Stuarda is, alas, a considerable bore-much less inspired, say, than the same composer's Lucia di Lammermoor or Don Pasquale. The only reason to pluck it from obscurity now is to afford a singing actress like Sills the dual opportunity to make life look difficult and bel canto fioritura easy. That Sills can accomplish better than anyone in opera today...