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John D. Ehrlichman, 43, a Seattle attorney, will be a presidential counsel handling special assignments. His present job is recruiting talent for the sub-Cabinet level. He worked in Nixon's 1960 and 1962 campaigns, this year had the title of tour director, handling logistics for the traveling operation...
...riots had spread through West Pakistan, causing four deaths and 70 arrests. The protesters echoed Bhutto's charges that Ayub's government is undemocratic and corrupt. Bhutto in turn helped fuel the riots. In the midst of the demonstrations, he set out on a whistle-stop tour from Peshawar to Lahore, declaring that "we do not want bloodshed, but we are not afraid of bloodshed. I am with the students in their struggle, for they are fighting against tyranny...
...inaugural ceremonies, Sihanouk strolled over. "Thank you for your participation," he said, shaking hands all round. "Congratulations on your independence, Monseigneur," replied Warrant Officer Ralph McCullough, the group's senior member. "You are very kind," said Sihanouk. "Thank you very much." Then, after a two-hour bus tour of the capital, the men were treated to lunch at La Taverne, one of the city's finest French restaurants. (Among the highlights was their first taste of beer since July 17-a Chinese brew called Tsingtao.) That afternoon, they watched a four-hour pageant as the Prince...
...tour of the U.S. last year took Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco 23,000 miles around the country and as far north as Alaska. It gave him the material for America and I Sat Down To gether, a collection of seven poems commissioned by Holiday magazine, some of which have also been published in his homeland. Evtushenko writes sadly of a trip to an Alaska fur farm (He who's conceived in a cage will weep for a cage); sharply of famous people (Allen Ginsberg-cagey prophet-baboon -thumps his hairy chest as a shaman thumps a tambourine); sentimentally...
Died. Charles Munch, 77, famed conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra with elegance and éclat from 1949 until 1962; of a heart attack; while on concert tour; in Richmond, Va. In the 1930s, Munch was the toast of Paris, where he was known as le beau Charles. Summoned to Boston to replace the old autocrat Serge Koussevitzky, the stately conductor earned the admiration of his musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch...