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...bill would allow the CIA to tap the phones and search the premises of U.S. citizens or corporations in foreign countries, but only if the agency first obtained warrants from a special court. The CIA would be permitted to use journalists, clergymen or academics as part-time agents or informers overseas, a practice that is now forbidden by the agency's own rules. Only U.S. citizens or resident aliens could look at the CIA's nonsensitive files on them; at present, under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA is required to show some files to almost...
...foreign ministers on the anti-Soviet measure was not known but, as one Pakistani diplomat told TIME, "There was no dissenting voice on this issue." The strong language of the resolution, he added', was "commensurate with the outrage." The U.S., by comparison, was given only a tap on the wrist. In surprisingly moderate language, the foreign ministers registered their disapproval of the Camp David accords and called on Iran and the U.S. to resolve their differences peacefully...
...over those who risk and fall short. Tickner, 26, whose turn in the round-robin of world champions came in 1978, is like a sophisticated Broadway chorus dancer who can give you the big moves but takes particular delight in demonstrating the fun and precision of a few simple tap steps...
Durante's career took off when he formed a vaudeville act with Tap Dancer Lou Clayton and Crooner Eddie Jackson. The trio played the Palace, appeared in a Ziegfeld revue, and provided the smash number for Cole Porter's 1930 musical, The New Yorkers. Other Broadway hits followed, including Porter's Red, Hot and Blue, which co-starred Bob Hope and Ethel Merman. It did not take long for Durante to get a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. His first film, New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931), was written by Charles MacArthur...
These are tap masters: Green slides in subtle steps, the soul dancer of the three, smooth, profound. Briggs adds a Hollywood flash. He waggles his hips as he taps, throws in a little jump, grins like a self-satisfied, grown-up L'il Rascal. Amazingly, the Sandman outsteps his friends, dancing like Ali if Ali had been a dancer, cool, hustling, full of street energy and showmen's finesse, heel to toe, over and over in a thousand combinations. Nierenberg's camera captures each...