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Many Americans, of course, find it difficult to summon up such energetic enthusiasm for the grand, excessive project. Blacks, for example, have remained on the margins of Bicentennial celebrations. But they have launched some notable projects. The National Urban League has distributed a series of booklets called Black Perspectives on the Bicentennial-covering black economic progress, the black press, education and politics. Two weeks ago, the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum opened in Philadelphia, 1½ blocks away from Independence Hall. It houses the most extensive collection of black American documents and artifacts yet assembled...
Will entertainment values also prevail in network news when Barbara Walters takes her anchor spot on ABC in the fall? Not necessarily. Walters has shown herself a strong, no-nonsense interviewer. At NBC she had the clout to summon the powerful, and the assurance not to be overawed by them; such a role would suit her better than merely reading the news. Moreover, on all three networks, news is viewed with real responsibility. The big three among network anchor men-Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Harry Reasoner -scorn show-biz gimmickry. At most, these personally cheerful fellows can be accused...
...most often clad only in pajamas. He was constantly attended by two male aides who acted as secretaries and nurses. When he lived at the Desert Inn, he was separated from the aides by a glass partition to ward off germs. If he wanted to give instructions, he would summon an aide to a door to pick up notes, or he would hold up the notes to a glass. Sample: "Please watch me closely and do not let me go to sleep...
...much the same way he gained-and lost-Hollywood's RKO. Buying it in 1948, he soon became the only individual to own a major U.S. film studio. He would summon associates to midnight meetings in obscure hotels and sometimes hole up for weeks in a studio screening room, subsisting on cookies and milk while watching nonstop reruns of old flicks. The studio had few postwar hits; its executives revolted; and in disgust Hughes sold RKO in 1954 for a small profit to the General Tire and Rubber...
Kamal Jumblatt, 58, may have been one of the few men in shattered Lebanon who could summon up such reserves of serenity. He was also, for the moment, the nation's most powerful political figure, as leader of the disparate leftist coalition known as the National Movement, whose forces until the ceasefire were locked in battle with Christian militiamen. More than any other Lebanese leader, Jumblatt was responsible for the collapse of Syrian President Hafez Assad's plan to end the civil war through a Pax Syriana. Jumblatt's reason: such a settlement would only perpetuate the sectarian bitterness dividing...