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...scant improvement. His idea of a fun evening was to disguise himself as a taxi driver, pick up customers in Amman and ask them what they thought of their new monarch. Hussein preferred blondes, but in 1955 he married a Hashemite cousin named Dina, several years his elder. She bore him only a daughter, and after two years Hussein quietly divorced her. He soon married a brunette British secretary named Toni Gardiner, whose father was an army officer stationed in Jordan; a convert to Islam, she is known as the Princess Muna, Arabic for "heart's desire." They have...
Expressing the change in the Faculty another way, a conservative caucus member noted, "When I see the wife of a colleague in the Square the first thing I ask myself is whether her husband is going to vote with us at the next Faculty meeting. What a colossal bore! Two years ago, I would be asking about his museum work, or his research...
...leaflet became an object of heated debate on Saturday and Sunday. Bread and Roses circulated a counter-leaflet warning that the original leaflet bore the mark of a provocateur: it was male chauvinist, addressing its readers as "Brothers"; it also said "you have to fight," not " we have to fight" as a real movement group would have. In addition, it was unsigned, and contained a rather condescending invitation to Panthers to join in the block party...
...Bergman film will offer Gould an invaluable opportunity to break away from the life and the stereotyped roles that now make him so popular but could in two years' time make him just a familiar bore. The plunge into Bergman's special private world will require greater depth, diversity and complexity than Gould has heretofore displayed...
...McIntyre reported a telephone con- versation with a "highly placed source in Vienna [who] made it very clear to me that the success of the SALT negotiations rests almost exclusively on our not remaining static in our ABM pos ture." Just before the vote, Republican Whip Robert Griffin bore down hard er on the issue: "If this amendment should carry and if the SALT talks should thereafter collapse, I would not want to be in the position of those who will vote today against the President...