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...ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT is all but finished, and Ken Booth knows it. Vietnam, the draft, the '60s--they seem to have been forgotten. When Booth, the central figure in John Godey's novel The Talisman, and a few others who have stayed with the movement demonstrate at the White House, not even the FBI shows up to take their photographs. So Booth searches for another way to reach the public, another way for the movement to get the attention it needs. He decides they will steal the remains of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, as ransom...
Kevin McCluskey, the Harvard senior who helped to organize the contests, said yesterday that some of the proceeds from the $2 donations for admission will go to a scholarship fund for the Talisman Summer Basketball Camp in Milton, Mass., and the rest will be used to help fund club sports at Harvard...
...Book of Common Prayer is a majestic mainstay of the Anglican faith. It is, as G.K. Chesterton observed, "the masterpiece of Protestantism, the one magnet and talisman for people even outside the Anglican Church, as are the great Gothic cathedrals for people outside the Catholic Church." The Prayer Book has remained essentially unchanged for 300 years. Should it now be modernized...
...interests to the outside and, by seemingly circuitous routes, back to Harvard include an expanded congressional school or, if the Kennedy Institute doesn't develop that adequately, alternative congressional briefings to junior and senior congressmen along the lines suggested in Brewer's* recent paper. (Your chance conversation with [Mark] Talisman [assistant to Rep. Charles Vanick, Democrat of Ohio] on Saturday was a help in all this.) If your letter to [Caspar] Weinberger [secretary of Health, Education and Welfare] creates a thoughtful exchange, and if he and you will approve sharing that with selected persons or groups, this would be another...
After patient prodding by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who within the past month seems to have emerged as West Europe's leader, seven of the eight were willing to give Wilson the talisman he needs to wave in front of the voters. France, which had called the summit, was less willing, and for a few hours, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (see page 37) sounded more Gaullist than le grand Charles. "There can be nothing of this kind," Giscard acidly said about Wilson's demands at one heated bargaining session. "Conceding what the British...