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...income housing scheduled for construction in the next year, he faces the intricate task of translating fair-housing legislation into hard reality. Romney is in a precarious position, working within an Administration that has shown, at best, limited enthusiasm for racial integration. Last week, at his home in the plush, predominantly white Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Romney talked to TIME Correspondent Jess Cook...
...made of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music and a willingness to sacrifice vocal beauty for dramatic effect. Sutherland deals in vocal velvet, Sills in emotional dynamite. Sutherland's voice is much larger, but its plush monochrome robs it of carrying power in dramatic moments. Sills' multicolored voice, though smaller, projects better and has a cutting edge that can slice through the largest orchestra and chorus. Sometimes, indeed, it verges on shrillness...
...four years, Mace was the source of much of the department's interior turbulence. He was known behind his back as the "executioner," the man primarily responsible for the selecting-out process. Officers also noted that under his aegis men with high diplomatic potential were often bypassed for plush jobs in favor of men little experienced in diplomacy from his department. Congress is also taking more direct measures. There are two bills pending before Congress that would overhaul and codify the grievance system...
...contrast, the Russians were dragging their feet. Though nominal supporters of the Albanian resolution, the Russians took no part in the lobbying around the rubber tree plants in the plush Delegates Lounge. Soon the Hungarians were passing around a joke: "For the U.S., one China is not enough; for the Russians, one is too many...
...company's hotel operations dipped into the red and showed a loss of $1,700,000 in 1970; a $2,200,000 deficit at the Playboy Plaza in Miami more than offset profits from the company's other resort hotels. Hefner's newest venture, a plush resort hotel in northern New Jersey 50 miles from downtown New York, is scheduled to be completed in December. Its cost, originally estimated at $21 million, is now figured in the Playboy prospectus at $29.5 million...