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Pike is believed to be thinking of running for James L. Buckley's U.S. Senate seat next year, a tough fight he would relish. But for now he is determined to nettle the members of the Administration who would conceal activities Pike thinks they ought to disclose. "Congress might have to revise its own rules to safeguard genuine secrets," says Pike, "but that is Congress's decision to make. The foreign affairs of the nation belong to the nation, not just to the Executive...
...those who like the blues, but still relish an etheral atmosphere, Saturday the Orpheum offers James Montgomery and the Gentle Giant. Gentle Giant, a group from England cut in the King Crimson mold, seems to command your attention for about twenty minutes; problem is, they tend to become so predictable that you know where the band's going before they...
...into more social and political unrest than a popularly elected government can afford. On the one hand, Galbraith indicts government for unfailing economic mismanagement; on the other hand, he trusts government to save the day with wage-price controls. He thus seems to fall into an inconsistency he might relish in an opponent...
...Aurore Dupin in 1804, from the legendary creature known as George Sand could easily have proved a biographer's undoing. But Curtis Gate, whose previous work includes a biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, approaches the task with both the patience of a scholar and the relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost every author, artist, musician and revolutionary politician...
Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott did most of the reporting from Lisbon, where he has good sources close to the ruling three-man junta. "Some of the military and government officials may say they are indifferent to world attention," Scott reports, "but from my experience, they seem to relish it." Within 48 hours of his arrival in the Portuguese capital in October 1974, Scott had arranged to talk with the President, the Premier, and the chief of the nation's Communist Party. The accessibility and volubility of Portuguese leaders contrasts sharply with the remoteness of government officials...