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In his memoirs, as in the memory of many of his professional associates, Conant remains a baffling and difficult man -by turns waspish and wry, pompous and self-depreciating. He calls himself a "social inventor," but by his own account, he emerges more as a catalyst and a tinkerer. His...
Love Festival. About 1,000 agents have been used to monitor disturbances, rallies, even high school demonstrations. One agent was on the floor of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, mission uncertain. Two Keystone Korporals were flushed out of the bushes in a Chicago park as they watched a Yippie...
VIET NAM. The U.S. will continue the program outlined in Nixon's Nov. 3 speech and seek peace in Southeast Asia through two means-Vietnamization and negotiation. The U.S., Nixon reports, has made progress at the former, but not at the latter. Nor does Nixon see any signs of...
But Boll has another voice. "This is a sad country without sadness," he wrote in the magazine Der Monat in 1965, describing postwar Germany. He explores that paradox with Kafkaesque laughter in a story about an argument between a veteran who has lost a leg and an impatient bureaucrat who...
Two weeks ago Nixon expressed hope that "the time is coming" when credit restraint can be relaxed. The next day, at Burns' swearing-in as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the President turned a round of applause for Burns to his purpose: "You see, Dr. Burns, that is...