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Verbal Bombshell. It soon became clear that unusual action would be needed to patch up the allies' relations. On Thursday, Kissinger unexpectedly appeared at the State Department's regular noon press briefing where he apologized for his biting comments: "I regret them, and I feel they make no great contribution to the Atlantic dialogue...
Thank God. Oxford gave Faulkner a home, a past and Yoknapatawpha County, a patch of "rich, deep, black alluvial soil," where his imagination took root. Mississippi nurtured his gift by constricting his life. But Blotner's plodding chronology obscures the fact that Faulkner changed very little from the aloof young man released after R.A.F. training in 1918, whose apparent idleness ("Count No Count") scandalized the town. With demonic singlemindedness, Faulkner set out to do what he wanted-write. If distracting jobs were forced on him, he saw to it that they were short-lived. When he was fired from...
...Roosevelt appointed him Director of the Budget in 1933. After 18 months, Douglas resigned in protest against New Deal fiscal policies but continued to commute freely between a lucrative business career in New York and Arizona and Government service. A tall, rangy man who had to wear an eye patch because of a fishing accident in 1949, Douglas helped shape, and as ambassador helped carry out, the Marshall Plan to reconstruct postwar Western Europe...
...Providence heads into its sixth ECAC hockey tournament (they've won only one) tonight at Harvard, things are different. The team is finally getting an identity, and the college has frozen a patch of home ice for the Friars on campus, Schnider Arena...
Correspondents resident in Peking can easily identify with the frogs in the old Chinese proverb that live at the bottom of a well: "They look and look and only see a patch of sky." The shifting political mood of China determines just how much sky will be visible. Now some members of the Peking press corps fear that a new constriction will accompany the regime's campaign against foreign and "bourgeois" influences...