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...second line's Visone, it was his second straight Beanpot birthday. This time a banner proclaimed. "Happy birthday Tony #4" Last year, the greeting was more original, his girl friend arranged for a singing telegram delivered on the ice at the Beanpot consolation game...
...containment of Soviet expansionism. He published a version of the cable in Foreign Affairs under the pseudonym "X." He has spent much of his life since then criticizing the way in which eight successive Presidents have followed his advice. Significantly, he has not included that famous Long Telegram in this collection of past writings. Instead, he reprints a 1950 memorandum to Dean Acheson warning against putting much faith in nuclear weapons as instruments of policy...
Peter De Vries, 72, novelist, on being named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters: "The day I got the notification telegram, I happened to be thinking of all the big money passed around to some authors. I started to draft a telegram of acceptance: 'Thanks a million. Make that a million-five...
...step with Maine public opinion on the issue of a nuclear weapons freeze, which he ardently supports Maine's legislature, following the example set by 81 town meetings in the state, endorsed the freeze by voice vote last year. Moreover, a recent informal survey by the Maine Sunday Telegram found that more than 70 percent of the people in the state favor a freeze. Emery, on the other hand, is the only member of Congress from New England opposing a freeze...
...show opens with a promisingly fast-paced multiple-telegram scene, but it proceeds to lose its momentum in over-long songs and explanatory dialogue. The second act, however, picks up the pace immensely (though not unflaggingly) as the actors begin to play more with their roles, apparently including some improvising, judging from the glee registered in the orchestra...