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...much the great communiques that came out, although the two communiques that came out [in Williamsburg last month] were very good and absolutely right for the Western world at this time. The thing is that we cannot meet in private. That is what all of us hanker after: to meet and have a good talk in private without the world press being there. But if two or three of us were to talk together it would leak out, and there would be some false significance attached to it. I think it is a great pity...
...were foreign-born. Mainly other Americans were drifting into Los Angeles. They came seeking respite from the Dust Bowl and Depression, or for a glancing try at Hollywood success. Since World War II, the mass of U.S. migrants has grown larger but less purposeful. Lately they have seemed to hanker not so much for jobs as for a sunny, sexy L.A. way of life, as have the growing number of French (55,000) and British (50,000) émigr?...
...Graphic Society; 144 pages; $29.95). More than 100 evocative photographs catch ranch hands and horses in landscapes where the Old West and the new one jostle for position: an AM-FM portable rests on a chuck wagon; pickup trucks wait outside wilderness taverns; mud-and blood-spattered rodeo riders hanker after Stetsoned girls who put Vaseline on their teeth to enhance their smiles. William Albert Allard's pictures catch it all, with a unique mixture of regard and regret...
...late father, Hale Boggs, was House Majority Leader. Her mother is Corinne ("Lindy") Boggs, Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana. So it is only natural that Barbara Boggs Sigmund, 42, should hanker for her own share of Capitol Hill office space. With her mother at her side, Barbara, a ten-year veteran of New Jersey politics, announced that she would seek the Democratic congressional nomination for the district that includes her home in Princeton. If she is successful and her mother is reelected, Boggs and Boggs would become the first mother-daughter act in congressional history. Says Barbara: "I have two terrific...
...able to average $30 a week and pay the rent on his apartment in a less-than-stylish section of Venice, Calif. Now he finds himself something of a celebrity, sought by editors, television and movie producers, and talk-show hosts. "I've been lucky," Bradbury admits. "We hanker after instant fame, but that's wrong; if fame comes too quickly, it spoils us. For me, recognition came at just the right pace...