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...Network. The Observer has lost much of its vigor in recent years under Editor David Astor, who stepped aside last year. ("The editor's indecision is final," an Astor deputy once quipped.) But the paper is still firmly plugged into the Old Boy network of Oxbridge dons, senior civil servants and other privileged subjects who have helped run Britain -and the Observer-for decades. Ownership of the Observer will give Anderson a box seat in that select circle, a valuable asset in a business as politically sensitive as oil. Indeed, Anderson has announced plans for an "international advisory council...
Selling the Farm. Still, why sell to an Australian instead of seeking other American prospects? Some Schiff associates speculate that Murdoch's publishing success and personal vigor remind her of the late Lord Beaverbrook, her fond mentor. But unlike Beaverbrook, who used his newspapers to influence British politics, Murdoch is out to make merry and money. The son of a prominent Australian journalist, Sir Keith Murdoch, Oxford-educated Rupert inherited a lackluster Adelaide daily in 1952 and parlayed it into an empire on three continents that today includes 87 newspapers, eleven magazines, seven broadcast stations, and an airline service...
...that the time for the Senate's investigation has ended. Cox argued at the time that he was fully competent to investigate and prosecute the Watergate transgressions himself and didn't want the Senate committee interfering or prejudicing possible trials with excessive publicity. Dash, naturally, defended his position with vigor, and reports the following exchange...
Miki Grant's award-garnering musical has been all over the country--I first saw it years ago in Philadelphia--but it has arrived in Boston with its vigor and energy unsapped. The effect of the show is cumulative; by the end of the two hours, the Charles Playhouse's exhuberant cast has successfully bounced, exhorted and cajoled its audience through the entire gamut of black experience...
...through a period of reflection and selfcriticism, of recognizing the existence of errors and distortions in its domestic life and in its foreign policy. That is one of the fundamental virtues of the American people, and this is a decisive moment for all men everywhere who hope that the vigor of the U.S. will be directed, as it was at its birth, not to the frustration but to the encouragement of historical progress...