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After three decades in public life. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller has a well-earned reputation as a shrewd, tough, skillful operator. But when he was sworn in as Vice President, Rockefeller also be came the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, and the moment he entered that historic chamber he was, as he frankly admitted, the new boy on the block...
...looks offended. A yard away, a pile of fallen leaves breaks and an animal with a naked, ringed tail rustles out. Startled, my brother watches the possum's ambling intently. The car door swings wide and he slinks around to my side. I can't help smiling at his shrewd expression as he motions for me to step out. I can't help laughing when the animal scares and he throws up his arms yelling Catch him, catch him!" at me, with high-pitched excitement...
...followed, all the directors of the CIA leaned on him. Allen Dulles seldom made a move on the clandestine side without first consulting him. Walter Bedell Smith made him his youthful éminence grise and bequeathed him his cherished fly-tying equipment. John McCone found him a fascinating and shrewd counselor...
...Erica Jong's heroine's idea of sexual bliss [Feb. 3] seems to derive from masculine flatulence and her partner's unwashed feet. It is not uninhibited openness but commercialism; not Molly Bloom or the powerfully abominable Henry Miller, but a shrewd hawking of The Most Repulsive as The Most Sincere, in keeping with Madison Avenue gospels. Male characters, supposedly psychoanalysts and Freudians, speak and act like disgusting junior-high-schoolers with IQs of 70. Ms. Jong so often refers to herself as a writer that a suspicion arises whether she is not just someone...
...providing $95,000 for a feasibility study that would be more favorable to a museum, or by pushing for a Red Line extension to Brattle St. that would chalk up a transportational plus for locating the whole conglomeration across from Eliot House. But these attempts were foiled--not by shrewd Harvard watchers but by engineers and residents who saw Harvard's actions as impractical and unnecessary complication...