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Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is...
The deadline for taking advantage of Ford's offer is Jan. 31, 1975. As mat ters now stand, his compromise solution to the problem of granting amnesty seems bound to end with the same sense of sour failure that marked so much of the long war in Viet Nam...
Yet another severe problem is the drastic delay in deliveries that is being caused by inflation-breeding shortages of aluminum, steel and electronic print ed circuits. As a result, orders have backed up dramatically, leaving the Army short 1,857 tanks. To make mat ters worse, Secretary of State Kissinger...
What had doubtless seemed simple generosity to President Ford when he gave his Alaska timberwolf fur coat to an ad miring Leonid Brezhnev seemed to them defiling of an endangered species. Let ters and telegrams of protest greeted Ford on his return to Washington. It turned out that the Chief...
Brandt has since disowned the article-purportedly based on excerpts from his secret diaries-although not very convincingly. Whether or not the quoted excerpts were authentic, that kind of cataclysmic approach did seem to reflect the doubts and disappointment of a visionary leader who had remained in power beyond his...