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...Harry S. Truman Library contains 9.3 million documents, the Franklin D. Roosevelt 22 million, the Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.5 million, the Herbert Hoover 4.6 million, and the as yet unbuilt John F. Kennedy Library will contain 17 million documents...
...Sadat, 52, after seven months in power, is no longer the butt of scornful jokes. He is no longer referred to as a "caretaker," soon to be supplanted by a more powerful leader. Dispossessed aristocrats no longer mock him, and politicians are discovering unexpected talents. Like some Nileside Harry Truman, Sadat is running the most populous and most important Arab nation with far greater authority and efficiency than anyone had anticipated...
Even your more informed dove is unlikely to remember that the debate over policy toward the Philippines around 1900 sounded very much like the contemporary argument over Viet Nam. Or that Dean Acheson himself once acknowledged that back during the Truman Administration, Washington's approach to Indochina was a "muddled hodgepodge...
...self-consciously the moral virgin and too facile with her received wisdoms and doubts, Gloria is far less lovable than such fictional older sisters as Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles (I Am a Camera) or Truman Capote's Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's). Herlihy's lively stock characters and head-shop props come directly from Aquarius Central. Yet The Season of the Witch has its appeal, especially if regarded not as an adult book but a contribution to an as yet nonexistent publishing category-groovy books for juveniles...
...into the airline business, missile parts, and had a personal staff of 75. Briefly he was married again, this time to Mia Farrow, who was less than half his age. Perhaps most surprising of all, after campaigning faithfully for almost every California and national Democrat since Harry Truman, he suddenly shifted his support last fall to Republican Governor Ronald Reagan...