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...says. "Now I have an enormous sense of independence. Now I don't have to strive to get attention, to shout and resort to gimmicks. It's so much easier to be myself. It's a question of style. I like to do things in a quieter, more meaningful way. Now I can do things...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
Last week Guthrie's 3,700 fellow Eastern pilots intimated that they, too, will drain holding tanks on the ground unless Guthrie gets his wings back. Meanwhile, Eastern announced that it had asked manufacturers to try to design a quieter, almost pollution-free engine in which excess fuel would seep back into the regular fuel tanks...
...their attitude, I think. They are interested in having contact with the prisoners inside and we carried letters in and out. The other thing, I think, is maintaining that facade of reasonableness that you find with Americans all through Southeast Asia. Laos is a good example. Nothing could be quieter and more pleasant than Vientiane, full as it is with C. I. A. men and U. S. agents and so on. Of course, probably the most massive bombardment of civilians is going on now as it has been for several years in northern and southern Laos...
Heath's supporters argued that in many respects the new Prime Minister was doing rather well. Northern Ireland was quieter, and last week the Ulster government banned all processions for six months, reducing the likelihood of renewed rioting. Maintaining his reputation as a superb administrator and delegator of authority, Heath cut his predecessor's swollen ministerial list, reducing the Cabinet from 21 to 18 and top non-Cabinet posts from 78 to 66. He also ordered a searching systems analysis of Whitehall's decision-making machinery, using top management experts recruited from private business. With care...