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...custody of the American embassy. I thought what a wonderful nation it is that will go all out for a single individual. It seems to me that's one of the distinctive things about this country -- that it is built on single individuals, each one a precious individual. And I couldn't tell you how grateful I am for that...
...Editors and women friends are brought on to recall a "contained," "testy, easily depressed man," "cranky to be considered this 'national treasure' and not sell." Herrmann adds that after the failure of his last play, The Beauty Part, in 1963, "(Perelman) began to lose the comic writer's most precious gift -- a sense of humor." This will come as a great surprise to readers who enjoyed Perelmania in five later collections of essays as well as a number of saline interviews and commentaries. It is true that personally Perelman was never Mr. Sunshine and that he always craved more recognition...
Impeached by the House in July by a 406-to-0 vote, Claiborne headed for trial in the Senate. Preoccupied with tax reform and in no mood to waste precious time on the case, harried Majority Leader Bob Dole dusted off the Senate's rules of impeachment and invoked Rule XI. The procedure calls for the appointment of a special committee to hear the testimony in each case, then report back to the Senate...
What he has given is good music. More than 95% of his airtime is devoted to the classics. He does not waste precious minutes on "garbage," a category in which he includes news, weather, and the time, among many other things. At WVCA, Geller leads off a typical morning lineup with Camille Saint-Saens and Sergei Rachmaninoff back to back, followed by Richard Wagner. He has no knack for pedantry; it is enough to play the music. When a visitor asks the name of a piece, he replies, "That's a piano concerto by Bronsart, who you probably never heard...
...Nevada, Montana and Colorado. The treasure hunt is bound to bolster the position of the U.S. as No. 4 among gold-mining countries. America's importance as a producer has increased lately because traders have become fearful of disrupted output from the world's leading supplier: South Africa. The precious metal's price surged last week to nearly $421 per troy oz., up from about $333 last April...