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...King's pool. Some shot clay pigeons. The principal sporting event was a golf tournament; Hassan is such an ardent golfer that a 20-ft. birthday picture hanging in one of Rabat's main squares depicted him in golfing clothes. At the 18th hole, U.S. Ambassador Stuart W. Rockwell chatted with General Mohammed Medbouh, commander of the King's military household. "We are the only ones who take golf seriously," sniffed Medbouh. ∙ A lavish buffet, which included lobster, smoked salmon, roast sheep and couscous, was laid out, along with champagne and mint tea. Hassan ate with...
...SPRINGS: THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE FIRST NEW YORK JEWISH LITERARY INTELLECTUAL IN THE HUMAN-POTENTIAL MOVEMENT by Stuart Miller. 341 pages. Viking...
...time was the mid-'60s. The restrained ways of the previous decade were retreating before creeping sideburns and widening ties. Despite a touch of residual acne, Stuart Miller saw himself as Stuart the Magnificent. A New Yorker, he had buried his middle-class Jewish background beneath dashing consumer goods. His degrees included a Ph.D. from Yale. He had acquired a vaguely British accent and was, fittingly, the author of The Picaresque Novel, a study of rogues in literature...
...troubled earth because they feel that they would either be worshiped as gods or feared as conquerors. The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena thinks that such speculations are sheer nonsense but still refuses to reject UFOs out of hand. Says the committee's executive director, G. Stuart Nixon (no kin to the President): "Right now, our biggest problem is overcoming the negative social climate created by the Condon report. People are afraid to talk about the objects they've seen, and the press is ignoring the subject...
...point a few years later. If the dilatory Marshal Ney had beaten Blucher's Prussians to position at Waterloo, the battle could have ended in a French victory, and Wellington might have taken Bonaparte's lease on the house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown up at Gettysburg when he was supposed to, instead of galloping his cavalry hither and yon through the quiet backwoods of Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee might have won the Civil War's most crucial battle. Richmond today might be the capital of the Confederate States...