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...journalist, the job of covering the President of the U.S. is always a plum, but its size, color and flavor change with each occupant of the Oval Office. Dean Fischer knows this well. When he joined TIME in 1964 after earning a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago and spending four years as a reporter for the Des Moines Register, his first assignment was to help cover Lyndon Johnson during the busy election year. Later, he served in several of our bureaus, from Chicago to Nairobi, but he has been back at the White House...
...equation, the sense of belonging she dearly wants never quite equals the sense of freedom she absolutely needs. And so she ends up a poor little princess in the kingdom of transients: California, a land of real estate agents in fake Spanish haciendas, freeways choked with white Lincolns and plum Mercedes, and always and everywhere the fugitive smell of eucalyptus...
...obvious in Acrobats, a short metaphor about the dependency between a husband and his wife. Though it contained the innovative use of actual acrobats on stage playing the roles of acrobats and interspersing gymnastics with the dialogue, Acrobats offered little of lasting value. Similarly It's Called the Sugar Plum, a comedy about a Harvard student who kills another student when he accidentally slips off his skateboard under the wheels of a moving car on Mt. Auburn St. is too limited. Sugar Plum is a character sketch using an improbable occurrence to draw out very familiar character types...
Kissinger himself did not see much bomb damage. He and his team occupied a high-ceilinged yellow stucco house, once the residence of the French administrator of Tonkin, with a formal garden graced by peach and plum blossoms in bloom. Walking along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake, Kissinger was the object of stares from passersby, but none approached him. He was impressed by the city's quiet, where the street traffic consists mainly of bicycles...
...seventh week, Yale. Penn and Cornell have all squeezed into second place with identical 32 records. The two second place teams of last week parted ways, as the Big Green (3-1-1) vaulted to the top, and Harvard plum meted to fifth place in the standings, tied with Princeton...