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...crimes seemed involved. When Segretti was called before a grand jury, Petersen ordered the prosecutors not to ask who at the White House had hired him. Dean testified that he had asked Petersen to avoid such embarrassing questions. It is also true that when Nixon told Petersen to refrain from any investigation of the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, Petersen complied...
...estimated cost for replacing the original windows is $5 to $7 million, according to Glenn H. Parsons, second vice-president of public relations for Hancock. The issue of who will finally foot the bill is still unresolved, and company officials have advised the people involved to refrain from comment on the matter...
...CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR, by Luigi Pirandello. This play is a classic of the modern theater; since I know nothing else about it, I refrain from further comment. Opens tomorrow at 8:30, Hill House, 74 Joy Street, Boston. VERONICA'S ROOM, by the author of Rosemary's Baby, whose name escapes me. A thriller, bound for Broadway. At the Colonial Theater in Boston...
...train, Neruda lost the consulship accorded his early poems by declaring Chile opposed to facism in Spain without waiting for his government's instructions. In 1944, the nitrate miners of Antofagasta asked Neruda to run for the Chilean Senate, where he served for four years. In 1948, unwilling to refrain from criticizing an American-supported dictator, Neruda was forced to go underground. For several months miners and working people helped him evade the Secret Police, passing him from house to house. With him, Neruda carried the manuscript of Canto General...
Better to try and "liberalize" the military rather than butt one's head against a stone wall trying to destroy it, the argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...