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Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...
...abroad. Another story had him picked up by police at his desk in the athletic-training department of the Polish Ministry of National Defense. Since his arrest, more than 100 persons are believed to have been interrogated in connection with the case. He is variously rumored to have been involved with a smuggling ring, planned to defect to the West, or to have spied for the French secret service, the CIA or the KGB. Similar tales have reached Polish-born academicians and authors in the U.S. None could be confirmed...
Died. Pinhas Sapir, 66, Israel's political gray eminence; of a heart attack; during a visit to Nevatim, a Negev agricultural village. Nicknamed "Bulldozer" for his drive and blunt pugnacity, burly, Polish-born Sapir immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was jailed by the British in 1933 for his militant labor organizing, and became David Ben-Gurion's roving weapons buyer during the 1948 war of independence. As Commerce and later Finance Minister for most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms...
...American identity, steadily regarding himself as an unlikely candidate for political martyrdom. After all, a mistake had been made. He was not even the spy type. He collected guns, but he also collected girls and loved fast cars and subscribed to the Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension course. If his Polish-born father had not needed a job badly enough to leave New York during the Depression and sign on with the Moscow Automotive Works, Alex at 22 might have been singing a phrase from one of his favorite songs, Pardon Me, Boy, Is That the Chattanooga Choo-Choo? in Rockefeller...
Since he took over the defense ministry from his friend Moshe Dayan less than a year ago, the Polish-born Peres has earned a reputation as a highly effective administrator who has helped rebuild the Israeli army's morale, which was shattered by the losses of the October war. He lives simply, sharing a modest book-filled apartment in Tel Aviv with his wife Sonia and two of their three children (the third is married). In his private hours, Peres, who studied at both Harvard and New York University, writes books about contemporary Israeli problems, as well as poetry...