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...young friend and fellow liberal approached Gilbert Harrison, longtime editor-owner of the New Republic. "Gil," he said, "if you're ever thinking about the future of the magazine, I'm interested." Last week, after guiding NR through one-third of its intellectually rich and financially lean six decades, Harrison returned the friend's interest by placing NR's future in his hands. The new owner and editorial chairman: Harvard Social Scientist Martin Peretz, 34, advocate of leftish causes and angel of liberal Democratic candidates (Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern...
After nearly half a lifetime of sleeping in an adobe hut, subsisting on goat cheese and fruit and working under a blistering sun, Maria Reiche, a tall, lean 70-year-old German scientist, is satisfied that she can answer many of the questions raised by the Nazcan figures...
...little savvy as chief of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Disappointed when he did not earn a higher position in the Nixon Administration, he said with foresight about the Nixon camp: "When things are going great they ignore me, but when things get screwed up, they lean on me." He was indicted for conspiracy...
...past half year, Kalmbach has all but withdrawn from the cocktail circuit and the lush golf courses. He has denned up with his attractive wife-a former Rose Bowl princess-and one of their three children in their $100,000 house overlooking the lean white yachts tugging at anchor in the harbor. Last fall Kalmbach made the mistake of appearing at the 25th anniversary dinner of the Balboa Bay Club. As a director he was included in the testimonials, but when he stood to acknowledge his name, there was a pause of embarrassed silence followed by a timid patter...
...face of these difficulties, even some of the most resourceful reporters, like David Bonavia of the London Times and Ulrich Grudinski of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, lean toward dry accounts based on official pronouncements, whether the subject is the latest grain harvest or the smear-Confucius campaign. When Grudinski has the urge to talk to expert sources, he pops down to Hong Kong to mingle with the community of professional China watchers there. The most limited correspondents of all are the Japanese, who operate under rigid self-censorship. When the Japanese were re-admitted following the Cultural Revolution, the major...