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...more aesthetic areas, the Sakowitz catalogue vends a day's guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...
...odds seem to favor a more disciplined Democratic majority next year. For one thing, Ford and the Republicans will be quick to accuse Democrats of inaction, much as President Harry Truman campaigned in 1948 against the "do-nothing" Republican 80th Congress. For another, Democrats recognize the need to make a record that will increase their chances of winning the White House in 1976. The party's legislative program will be high on the agenda of the Democrats' miniconvention in Kansas City, Mo., next month...
...liberties of a novelist are taken for granted. There is a lot of "Harry-Truman-stirred-on-his-pillow'' writing. Worse, during the 30-page death scene of Franklin Roosevelt the privilege of author's mind reading is abused ("it is not too fanciful to suggest...
...alas, was to remain un-repristinated, for Buckley found himself ventriloquized. By federal statute-Harry Truman's way of muzzling Eleanor Roosevelt when she occupied the same U.N. chair in 1945, Buckley suspects -he could not, utter anything to the U.N. Assembly in New York that had not been dictated by Washington. With his oratory stilled, but not his newspaper column or the daily jottings which form this witty journal, Buckley soldiered on. He handled his quota of agenda items: Status of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Measures to Be Taken Against Ideologies and Practices...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...