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...that, Morris was a somewhat reluctant recruit for the job. State Department Chief of Protocol Selwa Roosevelt gave the Reagans Morris' book on her husband's grandfather, the start of a planned three-volume work. The Reagans enjoyed the book, and in 1983 close aides like Michael Deaver began an ultimately successful two-year courtship of the author. Morris will not write his book until Reagan leaves office, but his agent is already angling for a publisher. The price rumored for the Reagan chronicle: more than $2 million. INDIANS A Mankiller Takes Over...
...employ their little fund of steps (The Nutcracker) or to aspire to (Serenade, a signature work he began within ten weeks of the school's opening). Starting in 1963, the school also benefited from then unprecedented grants of nearly $6 million from the Ford Foundation, which allowed it to recruit the best prospects nationwide and bring them to Manhattan on full scholarship. The money was a virtual endorsement of Balanchine's technique and style over any other. The grant accomplished its long-range purpose: today at least ten of the stronger American ballet troupes are headed by S.A.B. veterans...
...other peasants. But private entrepreneurs and village collectives have now expanded to all kinds of other businesses--inns, restaurants, stores, tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen can hire workers privately, a practice that conventional Marxists regard as inherently exploitative. Legally, no private entrepreneur is supposed to employ more than 15 hired hands, but local Communist Party officials often ignore that limit...
...Nidal joined Yasser Arafat's Fatah arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He rose quickly through the ranks and in 1970 opened a P.L.O. office in Khartoum. About a year later he was asked to leave by the Sudanese, largely because of his efforts to recruit local Palestinian students as guerrilla fighters...
...widowed father, an asbestos salesman and orthodox Laborite, was not amused. He declared that higher education was rubbish and that Michael should leave school to become a sales trainee. The son, more mole than firebrand, slowly undermined that plan and found his way to Cambridge, first as an army recruit sent to learn Russian, then as a full-time student. There he discovered, and was seduced by, the very class of society that Marxism had taught him to hate: socially adept, physically graceful and intellectually poised aristocrats. Recalls Frayn: "I was immensely charmed by their sense of style, maybe...