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...elder statesmen of jazz are in Boston this weekend. The old line is alive and well and swinging. The mainstream is flowing quickly through the bean town. If only Buddy Rich were here...
Price says Nixon tries especially hard to stay on top of developments in superpower and Mideast relations, as well as domestic economic and energy issues. Nixon still occasionally speaks with unnamed national and international statesmen, the confidante reports, though "they're not coming to him for advise and counsel and that sort of thing. A lot of them are friends of his. They're just trying to maintain some personal contact," Price adds...
Clearly, Raymond Price has carved out a role for himself in the campaign to rehabilitate Richard Nixon in the eyes of history. Try to view Richard Nixon through non-Watergate colored glasses, Price recommends, and Nixon will be remembered as one of the great American statesmen of this century. In With Nixon, Price writes, "In the immediate aftermath of Richard Nixon's fall from grace and power, his administration was remembered chiefly for its end. But to see it only in these terms is to miss the central significance of one of the most momentous six-year periods...
...issue of the ZPG National Reporter runs a list of "exceptional" only children in an attempt to bolster the argument of some psychologists that "onlies" tend to do better in life than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw...
Downey will add a tremendous amount of speed and an experienced point of view to the Harvard team this year. Downey is one of the team's elder statesmen, but she says she does not feel like the "senior advisor...