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Califano is famed for his inexhaustible drive, and something about him is always moving: if not his mind, then his feet or his fingers. He is used to taking command, to shoving decisions through, to getting things done. He has a habit of scrambling the chain of command?and confounding and angering the bureaucrats?by pumping information out of the person most directly involved in a program, whatever his rank...
...most people, those are the lyrics of a 1935 Fats Waller song, Spreadin' Rhythm Around. But to audiences at Broadway's Longacre Theater, they are official marching orders, a direct command from the feet to the brain. Not since Fats was tapping the keys back in speakeasy days has old Manhattan had such a good high-hattin' time as it does in Ain 't Misbehavin', a musical collection of 30 songs Waller composed or helped to make famous. To put it mildly, Ain't Misbehavin ' is behaving wildly. Three days after it opened...
...cross the street, especially at unusually shaped intersections or when there is a great deal of confusing noise. A guide dog isn't much help here; it is trained not to cross the street but rather to stop at the curb and wait for its master's next command. In a situation where it is hard for a blind person to discern when to cross a street, it may be equally troublesome to find a person to help him. Here an offer of assistance is most welcome...
...most outspoken of the opposition parties is the National Progressive Unionist Party, a grouping of Marxists and socialists led by Khaled Mohieddin, who was known as the "Red Major" when he was a member of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. Among the leftist charges: much of the $10 billion given to Egypt by Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Arab states since 1973 has never reached the people; a bribe of $1.5 million was paid to a government official to get a hotel project started near the Pyramids; the army sold a plane, a gift from another...
Despite some initial failures, the U.N. units seem to be coming to terms with the Palestinians. After a fight in which one of his men was wounded by a band of irregulars, the Norwegian commander, Major Tor Løset, went to see the local Palestinian leaders. "I told them we regretted using our weapons," he said later. "They told me they regretted the incident too. They said that none of their regular forces participated. I told them we should have a telephone line direct to their headquarters so we could communicate if there were future attempts to infiltrate...