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First came the announcement of the names of 25 members of the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council, a group which counsels Action, an umbrella agency for federal voluntary social service organizations. At the top of the list was the name of Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, designated "temporary chair woman." And, yes, it seemed she was to be paid the standard Government consulting fee of $138.48 per working...
Besides Hughes and Maheu, who was ousted in an epic power struggle three years ago, those indicted were: Chester Davis, Hughes' longtime No. 1 attorney and chief counsel of Summa Corp., the umbrella organization that holds the casinos, Hughes Air West, Hughes Aircraft Co. and nearly all of Hughes' other properties...
...this category are elements of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and Nayef Hawatmeh's Marxist Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They feel that Palestinians must gain a "national territory," of whatever size, as soon as they can. Arafat is also head of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization, and he knows that he must bind together extremists and moderates in common cause. He is thought to argue that establishment of even a truncated Palestinian state would be far better than for the West Bank to fall again to the control of Jordan's King Hussein...
...pages. Little, Brown. $5.95. An apogee of anthropomorphism that takes a collection of crazy quatrains and lurid limericks literally and presents men and animals behaving comically like people. Wallace Tripp can do more with a sulky young rabbit, or a fox glumly watching water pour through his tattered umbrella, than anyone would think possible...
...been parched for laughs. Well, the drought is over. A comic geyser is flooding the Plymouth Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers. Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running a two-course restaurant on the English moors...