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...restricted." The jocular threat came from Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice, Law and Order. Niesewand has looked after his wife well enough, but for the past month he has been in jail under an order signed by Lardner-Burke. The vague grounds: the freelance reporter was "likely to commit acts prejudicial to public safety or public order." Free translation: the white-supremacist government of Ian Smith did not like what Niesewand had been writing, and has the dictatorial powers to squelch...
...negotiations begin, they will proceed informally: The Administration will not commit itself in any way to recognizing the Union officially. John T. Dunlop, who master-minded the Administration's strategy last year, is gone, and it is unclear whether Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, will play a crucial role in the dispute. The Administration was bolstered last Fall when Edward T. Wilcox was appointed acting dean of the GSAS. Wilcox is a personable man who is also a skilled public performer. He is openly sympathetic to some of the Union's aims, if not its actual demands...
...been left in the dark about a lot more things. I don't want her to grow up with too many illusions." Why had the family let itself be filmed? Said Lance: "It's like who wants to die in an airplane crash, when you can commit suicide?" How would they have done the film themselves? Father Bill Loud answered: "We would have done more of a Laugh-In type of thing." The publicity didn't impress much: "I'm very big in a liquor store and very big in a barbershop and that...
...Postma. "A breast had been removed, she had had a cerebral hemorrhage, she was partly paralyzed, could hardly speak, had pneumonia and was deaf. Again and again she had told me and my husband, 'I want to leave this life. Please help me.' She had tried to commit suicide but she didn't succeed." Then one day in November 1971, Mrs. Postma visited the old-age home and found her mother propped in a chair, tied to the arms, because a male nurse had decided she needed to spend time out of bed. "When I watched...
...black apprentice, Juan de Pareja, for $5,544,000 -the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. To pay it, Hoving and his Acquisitions Committee had to liquidate the capital left in the museum's Fletcher Fund, about $6,000,000, and commit themselves to pay back at least a part of it, in yearly installments of $160,000 through 1976. In effect, the buying power of the Metropolitan's 17 departments had been partly mortgaged for several years in advance against one painting. The result: the Met needed money. Hoving proposed...