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...many vacation-bound Americans, Richard Nixon had ambitious reading plans during his three-day rest in the Virgin Islands last week. He took along three books, each of them "dull," he said. It is not known how much reading he got done in all that sunshine, but one selection, Robert Blake's biography of Benjamin Disraeli,* was especially apt. The great Tory, who 100 years ago led his country into a memorable period of progressive reform, once wrote: "All power is a trust . . . we are accountable for its exercise; from the people, and for the people, all springs...
...handful of top policymakers knew what was up anyway. This time, there was none of the hour-by-hour agonizing at Camp David that contributed to the tense atmosphere in Washington during the Cambodian foray. Nixon, in fact, left for a long weekend at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
...Poor Virgin. Even so, Ted Heath's government has announced a policy of state "disengagement" from industry. Hoping to stimulate free enterprise and cut back on public expenditure, Heath intends to sell some state operations to private companies and seek partnerships with private investors in others. His campaign became apparent in November when he fired Viscount Hall, chairman of the Post Office Corporation. Hall was opposed to attempts to tinker with his 500,000-man empire, especially its enterprising nonpostal activities: computer sharing, a savings bank and a personal-loan service. A former Labor member of Parliament, Hall called...
...vaguely subversive thought that they are scarcely safer now than were 19th century men who took their chances in wagons across Indian country. There might be some intimation of progress in the fact that last week's Trans Caribbean Boeing 727 crash on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, in which two passengers died and 54 were injured, was the first and only fatal crash of American scheduled airlines in all of 1970. So superb a safety record suggests that something much closer to complete safety in the air may not be impossible. But as the still-grieving campuses...
...gleam to your eye, the scene is going to be below my level of acceptability." How's that again? "Sexuality has more to do with it than just going to bed with someone. It has to do with loving, listening, touching, making the other person happy." Joanna Shimkus (The Virgin and the Gypsy) is, like Ali MacGraw, a model turned actress?with a special, highly charged screen presence. She, too, is part of the new romanticism. "I'm old-fashioned," she insists. "I don't believe in promiscuity. I don't believe in drugs. Anything that feels as good...