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...Kissinger worked for Rockefeller and advised him on world and national issues for 13 years. On Jan. 17,1969, as Kissinger was about to become President Nixon's top national security adviser, Rockefeller told him in a letter that he was arranging a $50,000 gift "as a token of my friendship and my appreciation for the work you have done in service to the people of this country. It comes from Happy and me, with our warmest best wishes." Kissinger consulted White...
...roulette tables. "Girls on the make swarmed around them like bees," said one spectator. "The princes invited two young women to dine with them. After dinner, the girls to their surprise were not invited to visit the princes' suites, but each was given a $400 chip as a token of appreciation for her company...
Nonetheless, Chou En-lai and the moderates may have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the leftists got represen tation at the apex of the party but little increase in real power...
Snickenberger's efforts might seem to be a token campaign to recruit women in these schools, but he bridles at the suggestion that quotas be set for female acceptances or that admissions be "slanted" in favor of women...
Although blacks criticize him for some of his views, many admire his independent stands. Says a black colleague: "This fellow is not a token of anything. They don't know what he's going to write." Raspberry has no interest in being a racial spokesman: "I think of myself as a black columnist as much as Joe Kraft thinks of himself as a white columnist." That neutrality may be easier for Kraft than it is for Raspberry. Blacks still must cope with pressures and hurts that whites are spared. But Raspberry's column shows that the pain...