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Renaissance. While imprisoned, Smith transformed himself from an unknown condemned man into a national figure. The onetime dropout honed his extremely high intelligence (IQ: 154) on college correspondence courses, legal texts and a renaissance sampling of books and periodicals. He also struck up a correspondence with Columnist William F. Buckley, who championed his cause in magazine and newspaper articles. Said Buckley of Smith last week: "His harrowing experience has made him wiser, and also a lot of others wiser-certainly myself...
...evening was billed as a "Dialogue on Women's Liberation," and Beat Poet Gregory Corso set the tone by storming out almost as soon as the festivities began. Then, as such literary luminaries as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Philip Roth stared in silence from the audience, Village Voice Columnist Jill Johnston proclaimed that "all women are lesbians" and began an onstage group grope with two female companions. The remainder of the rambunctious encounter featured Novelist and "Prisoner of Sex" Norman Mailer battling a phalanx of feminists led by Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch). As the distinctively distaff...
...Spiro Agnew has a laugh line that goes like this: "I guess you've heard that Senator Muskie has taken a firm position on a major issue. He has set Dec. 31 as the deadline for the end of the year." The Administration's plan, reports Conservative Columnist Kevin Phillips (The Emerging Republican Majority), "is to hold Muskie's chameleon-like indecision and issue-flipflopping up to the spotlight-and even to ridicule...
...night of the concert, Teddy turned up 45 minutes late at the table where Foreign Minister Scheel and Ambassador Rush were waiting for him. The German press took note. The Silddeutsche Zeitung referred to the Kennedys' "lack of feeling for time and protocol." Wrote influential Columnist Walter Henkels in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "A subtle wall of estrangement and aloofness seemed to have arisen between Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan on the one hand, and the Bonn people on the other...
Viewing the campsite, Washington Post columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman said, "It kind of looks like Dien Bien...