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...Japan's most catastrophic military adventure. If an opinion poll were taken today in Japan, most people, if they remembered him at all, would probably regard him with either neutral or sympathetic feelings. As one recent Japanese textbook improbably insisted, Japan was left with no other choice except to go to war with the Allies, and Tojo was simply the man who pushed the button...
...Trying to avoid a bust for obscene behavior, O'Leary holes up at the Malibu home of his screenwriter girl friend, Woody Hagen, whose house is kind of an intimate crash pad for the neighborhood freaks. Not a good deal happens after O'Leary's arrival, except that the gang gives a spying nark a tough time and both O'Leary and Woody stand to go to jail for a while. But they figure out a method to coast all the way: "If you go in," O'Leary says, "I'll keep you stoned...
Beyond budgetary power, the key to Washington influence is closeness to the President, and already Shultz has more regular access to Nixon than anyone else except National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. As one of the top hands in Ehrlichman's office puts it: "If you're talking about confidence in judgment, then nobody's closer than Shultz. If you're talking about accessibility, then nobody has it better. He's on a walk-in basis." Shultz's success is one of the major surprises of this Administration. He has already become something very close...
...restore confidence, Williams proclaimed a new five-year development plan that included an ambitious housing and rural development program. "We have already gone further than any other Caribbean territory except Cuba," he said. But the local population-49% black and 40% East Indian-does not seem overly impressed. Says a 60-year-old plumber who has been out of work for eight years: "I will never live to see half of what he is promising...
...that the trouble is not in the music, but in the composer. Writing in the New York Times recently, Aaron Copland observed that too many contemporary composers use the university as their base, and consequently, the music they produce is refined and scholarly, yet almost unfit for human consumption, except for those who believe that music should be seen and not heard. Coplan cites Foss, with his long connection with UCLA, and now Harvard, as one of these composers...