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...sent a letter to both the council and SASC explaining why the Corporation would not meet. His proposal to set up a committee to look into the possibilities for opening up dialogue is at best roundabout and at worst a cover-up of the refusal to meet. Bok's letter to SASC stated that "in ten years of contact with your organization I cannot say that I have ever detected much interest by SASC in putting forth a detailed argument in support of total divestment." That's just absurd...
Gift there was, however, and after near oblivion, Inge is being rediscovered: last week the Roundabout Theater in New York City mounted a powerful Come Back, Little Sheba, the first major Manhattan production since its premiere. The Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Mass., is currently staging A Loss of Roses with Elizabeth Franz and Shaun Cassidy. A musical version of Bus Stop and a West Coast stage revival of Picnic are pending, and Washington Post Drama Critic David Richards is writing an Inge biography...
Texas, and Texas A & M, which gets one-third of the revenue on oil, gas, sulfur, and water from the land, make money in a roundabout, tricky way. Last year $176 million came into Texas's $2.3 billion endowment from the fields, but all the income from the principal of the endowment was spent. W.L. Lobb, who oversees Texas's endowment, says that all endowment income gets spent each year paying off old bond issues the universities have taken out for construction and operations...
What's more, all-too-evident ideological tendencies leave Nixon smelling of the Worst sort of moral arrogance. Summoning a strong dose of roundabout logic, he finds it necessary to justify his rather rosy conclusions about leaders like the Shah or Sadat. "We may not like authoritarian rule," he writes predictably, "but for many countries there simply is no practical alternative to their present stages" Perhaps Nixon is indeed right to suggest potential pragmatic and philosophical pitfalls which foreign policies face in trying to follow idealistic, human rights based programs. But in the process, indeed throughout the book, Nixon betrays...
...Times was on the spot. Late in February, an article by foreign editor Craig R. Whitney appeared on page 36, admitting the incident. Whitney attempted to explain in a roundabout way why his paper had not reported the story from the start "It is the policy of the Times to report difficulties by its correspondents in the pursuit of stories when the difficulties become news." Apparently then, editors of the Times did not see the kidnapping as news fit to print. Yet previously, two long articles relating problems Times correspondents had encountered while reporting in Israel were published...