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...brought the House down with his improvisational "Harmonica Blues." Had you closed your eyes you could have imagined yourself in a black church in Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans or any black community. Anywhere but Harvard. The concert was a beautifully transplanted slice of a deep-rooted cultural genre which seldom gets public play in Cambridge...
Shultz is seldom short on either fact or theory, although the softspoken, smooth-faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...
...against the men they off-and-on love, and yet they still seem unable to organize their lives without them. Weldon men are talkers rather than doers. The aesthetes end up in ad agencies, the back-to-nature idealists wind up turning a profit on battery-stimulated hens. Seldom, if ever, do they make decent lovers...
...more. In an uncharacteristic burst of zeal, Belgian customs officials have lately taken to strict enforcement of the fiendishly exact regulations drawn up by the Belgian government and the EEC, concerning the quality of ingredients in food and beverage imports, something they seldom did in the days before Britain entered the EEC. Ronald Davidson, owner of Osborne House, has pleaded that the pork pies fit into the allowed category of pate en croute, that his sausages are really boudin blanc, and that Rose's Lime Juice is a permissible fruit extract. But the continental customs men-to whom...
...unfamiliar position for this affable and modest Cambridge man; he has traditionally been receptive to the press but seldom has he outwardly sought its publicity. Now in a position of high leadership, O'Neill's unpretentious attitude toward Washington's power and social structure has already pumped fresh air into the capital's current "power of the purse" controversy...