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...eight-month tour of the U.S., Britain and Australia beginning next winter. Reynolds, who has been touring with her own show on the variety circuit, phoned O'Connor, who had been appearing in a nostalgia-trip revival of Showboat, and the two tried out their act in a smash stint three months ago in Atlantic City. Their 1 1/2-hour show will cover four decades of music, from Singin' through today's hits, but, says O'Connor, 60, "we don't try to be young. We just think young. I wouldn't compete with the me of 30 years...
During a nine month stint overseas, I was constantly placed in the position of having to defend America's foreign policy. The critics were not the usual anti-U.S. protagonists. Rather, they were generally self-described supporters of the U.S. The criticism was aimed not at such traditionally deplorable foreign policy targets as U.S. intervention in Nicaragua. Instead, people were dismayed with America's way of responding to universally agreed upon trouble areas, like terrorism and international trade...
...main reason to go to the Kong is to eat greasy Chinese food. The chicken fingers are extraordinary when washed down with alcohol. A summer stint in Cambridge is probably not enough time to try all 69 types of beer they serve here, but it still may be worth the effort...
There is need for a thorough, dispassionate biography of Murrow, one that could assess his precise contributions to American journalism--and to modern relations between the news media and Government during his stint as director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration. Ann M. Sperber, a former book editor and freelance writer, has doggedly undertaken the task in Murrow: His Life and Times. Her volume is nothing if not inclusive: it mentions head colds and household accidents, and is replete with sometimes pointless anecdotes in which Murrow is at most a peripheral figure--half a page, for example...
...struggle between activists and bureaucrats that has plagued the council throughout its short stint on the scene, Winthrop has remained a middle-of-the-road moderate, serving each of his four years on the student services committee and the student-administrator Committee on College Life (CCL), which he says gave him "the opportunity to deal with a broader range of problems and get listened to by administrators...