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...parched period for Broadway, summer is the most fertile time of year for the London stage. American tourists crowd the city and producers pump new life into old attractions and unveil choice new ones. The most successful plays usually migrate to the U.S. Following is a current British sampler...
Consider this sampler of Lindsay-Rockefeller exchanges in recent weeks...
...sampler of diverse American expatriates, 1970-style: IRVING HARRISON, 50, moved his family and his architectural practice from New York City to Barcelona last spring. He was a McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and it was there, he says, that he "began turning off." He explains: "We went with the belief that we could still change the whole picture, and we got slapped down like so many children. I no longer believe that the thinking, responsible adult can actually make a difference...
...five White House years by squirreling away appointment sheets, memoranda, letters and, above all, by talking almost every day's events into a tape recorder. The result was some 1,750,000 words that will eventually be available to scholars at the L.B.J. library. Diary is a sampler, some 300,000 words in nearly 800 pages, constituting a singular account of an exacting and freakish assignment, that of being a First Lady in the second half of the 20th century...
...been uncommonly troubled by the recent recession, which some experts prefer to call a "recedence" or "retardation," and by new attacks on industry's social conscience. One consequence is that the linguistic fog has begun to thicken in annual reports, executives' speeches and other official statements. A sampler...