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...express their displeasure with the Douglas order, Major W. Robert Kinscherff, assistant deputy director of the Southern California Selective Service System, said he received 4 or 5 calls from men who had planned for their induction and were "upset" that they couldn't go. "That's sort of a twist, isn't it?" he said...
...story of his own life." A French journalist and editor of Paris-Match, Galante gleaned a wealth of new detail on the "intimate Malraux" from 30 interviews with the former Culture Minister. He relates, for example, that the sartorially elegant Malraux buys his blue serge and black wool-twist suits at Lanvin and that he dines frequently at an exclusive Paris restaurant, Lasserre, on hearts of palm, grilled steak and an orange filled with sherbet...
Darcy Pulliam (as Emilia) has an especially well-reigned sense of the power of servants in Shakespearean plays. With much of Iago's ability for skillful management of others (but with none of his strange twist of heart) she soothes Desdemona and chaperones her to bed with the kind of understated stage-presence that suggests a well-concealed understanding of how her mistress is to be handled. And Marie Kohler's Desdemona is more dutifully opposed than passively resigned to Othello's creeping suspicion--a refreshing variation on the usually-wilting Desdemona...
...grand ambiguity? The real issue is: What is responsible justice?" Last week in his television speech, Nixon suggested his own definition: "It is my belief that it is the duty of a judge to interpret the Constitution and not to place himself above the Constitution . . . He should not twist or bend the Constitution in order to perpetuate his personal, political and social views...
Just before Agnew arrived in Athens, almost 200 Greek political figures, ex-members of the ex-Parliament, had signed a public warning that Premier Papadopoulos would twist the Agnew visit into a seeming gesture of political support for his regime. They need not have worried about distortion, however; Agnew repeatedly made it clear that he warmly supported the military dictatorship. Given a chance to meet Greece's former political leaders, he declined...