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...Broadway, it would be difficult to find a production without homosexuals playing important parts, either onstage or off. And in Hollywood, says Broadway Producer David Merrick, "you have to scrape them off the ceiling." The notion that the arts are dominated by a kind of homosexual mafia-or "Homintern," as it has been called-is sometimes exaggerated, particularly by spiteful failures looking for scapegoats. But in the theater, dance and music world, deviates are so widespread that they sometimes seem to be running a kind of closed shop. Art Critic Harold Rosenberg reports a "banding together of homosexual painters...
...101st Senator." The indictment offers a glimpse at how the onetime $19,612-a-year Senate employee was able to scrape together a fortune that ran up to $2,000,000. The specific charges involve devious transactions over 3½ years that brought Bobby some $137,000 from clients who felt the need of his special talents as "the 101st Senator." None of the money, which he received largely in cash, was reported as taxable income. Furthermore, Baker not only deceived the Government but apparently never played quite foursquare with his cohorts...
...intent, under which the state's Atomic & Space Development Authority will put up $125,000 for the company to draw complete specifications for the free world's first nuclear-powered desalinization plant.* If the Atomic Energy Commission approves the reactor design as expected, New York will later scrape up $4,100,000. Building is to begin next April at Riverhead, N.Y., on the northeast shore of Long Island, and in 1968 the plant should start turning out fresh water...
Advertising Boycott. Meanwhile, there have been feeble attempts to supply Baltimore with an interim newspaper. The Guild puts out a small daily tabloid, the Baltimore Banner, for which Sun staffers scrape up news from radio and television. But local merchants, friendly to the Sun, provide little advertising and the Banner is losing more than $4,000 a week. A second daily, the New Baltimore Morning Herald, published by Johns Hopkins students' with coed assistance on weekends, has also been hard put to find advertising in a town where the Sun has long been king. But the city...
This may be true (although O'Brien, who is said to be thinking of entering Massachusetts politics, would probably be available to anyone who could scrape up the subway fare into Boston), and it would certainly benefit Harvard and the other Boston-area universities participating in the Institute to have O'Brien accessible to professors and students. But there would be no gain for the scholarly community as a whole; someone would be certain to extract the information from O'Brien whether there was an Institute...