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Nice as these distinctions may be, the crux of the matter is that if the President does not want to comply with a subpoena, there is precious little that can be done. Underlying the whole problem is the question of whether and how much the law applies to the President at all. In ordinary matters, of course, it does. He must pay his taxes and catch no more than the legal limit of trout (though Eisenhower used to break that one). "If the President shot the Chief Justice," says Harvard Legal Historian Raoul Berger, "he could be tried in ordinary...
...before him, and his father's plea that if he must give any money to a 15-year-old guru, he should turn over income only and keep his capital intact. Ted Chadwick has "had Knowledge" for over a year now, and it has given him a Divine Light precious beyond any earthly concerns...
...ASSUMED I wouldn't like Paul Simon. I didn't like Simon and Garfunkel. Arthur was as precious as anyone deliberately called Artie could be. I found their music smug and overconfident; it represented the worst of the thoroughly reprehensible middle sixties "folkie" tradition. It was all there in "Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...
...surprises left in the record business? Two LPs after his auspicious transformation from pop poet to hard rocker, Nilsson steps forward as crooner of a dozen old goldies like As Time Goes By and I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now. Such an exercise in nostalgia is a precious fancy that Nilsson manages to bring off because his crooning is so fancy-free. He has an original crooning style that is notable for its freedom from the Sinatra mannerisms that have intimidated a generation of pop balladeers. Gordon Jenkins' luxurious string-and-wind arrangements lend added gilt...
...first of a run of 1,000 Coalport china plates commemorating her late husband. Inscribed on its back is an elegiac quotation from Sir Winston Churchill: "In this prince there were discerned qualities of courage, of simplicity, of sympathy, and, above all, of sincerity; qualities rare and precious which might have made his reign glorious in the annals of this ancient monarchy...