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...guns-most of which seems nonsense. But even if a line may be drawn from the playing fields of Eton to Waterloo, still the playing fields must be judged preferable; better to be akin to war than in one. What gets observers of the Olympics down may be pure exasperation: Why should the world give up on one international activity that at least has the potential to offer more pleasure than pain...
Hawaii was pure holiday. Although the President carried his three-inch-thick briefing book as he padded to the beach in white bathing trunks Easter Monday, he mostly ignored it. Instead, he tried some broken-field running, using a coconut as a surrogate football, then exhibited a leisurely overhand crawl through the Pacific surf. The scene seemed reminiscent of the pictures from 1966 that purported to show Chairman Mao, then 72, swimming vigorously in the Yangtze River. During their day and two nights in the 50th state (they stop in the 49th, Alaska, this week), Reagan and Nancy chatted with...
...News, which for the first time has hired an outside public relations consultant, John Scanlon, to defend it, countered with a barrage of letters and rebuttals from Wallace, Crile and others, charging that Kowet had engaged in "pure invention" and "grotesque distortions." Among CBS's accusations: Kowet had reported as quotations more than 100 conversations without Actually talking to any of the CBS employees involved; he had fabricated an alleged telephone call in which Wallace was said to have enlisted the help of A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times, in downplaying critical coverage of the documentary...
Adams' uncompromising craftsmanship helped pioneer the growing public recognition of photography as an art form. His method was to control rigorously every element of the picture: lighting, composition, focus. The image for him broke down into ten distinct "zones" of tonal quality, ranging from deepest black to pure white, so that every picture was a careful symmetry of light and dark. "The negative is the score," he said. "The print is the performance." By the mid-'60s, Adams had virtually ceased taking photographs for public consumption, concentrating instead on making prints of earlier works (the performance grew darker...
...Gray can get your case heard," says Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference. Declares the New Republic columnist TRB: "Gray's firm has broken new ground in the brazenness with which it presents itself as selling not legal services or even public relations, but connections pure and simple...