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...which specializes in tax matters, has expanded from 14 U.S. offices to 47. Seidman, a jogger and avid antiques collector, is also something of a frustrated politician: he lost a campaign for Michigan auditor general in 1962, headed the Romney for President office in Washington in 1967-68, and withdrew early last year from a race for the congressional seat Ford vacated to become Vice President. Seidman so far has had little to say about his economic views: he describes himself as a conservative but adds that "I don't think those labels mean very much" and says that...
While NATO will certainly survive the departure of Greece, one of the weakest powers in the alliance, it will be hurt tactically-more so even than when Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from the integrated command in 1966. Unlike France, Greece is part of NATO's front line, bordering directly on Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Greece also controls, along with Turkey, the strategically important Aegean Sea, which is the Soviet navy's sole access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. "No question that Greece has been considered a key part of the common southern defense system," says...
...Premier Nobusuke Kishi needed a big favor: a guarantee that his brother Eisaku Sato would succeed ailing Hayato Ikeda as Premier. So Kishi paid a secret visit to a Tokyo businessman who obligingly made a few telephone calls to his friends. As a result, Sato's opponent hastily withdrew from the race, and Sato went on to become Japan's Premier for an unprecedented eight years...
...down out of his general aspirations for good. If Nixon had only hated totally, it might have been easier. But he was not that simple. He craved the adoration of the press and the Eastern liberals even as he assaulted them. He coveted the public trust as he withdrew from people. He espoused the ideals of a democratic society even as he violated them...
...Nixons have always been intensely private people, keeping their own counsel and concealing their innermost feelings behind the masks they present to the public. Last week, as the pressures on the President mounted, each member of this tightly knit family withdrew briefly even from the others, as if only in isolation could the strength be summoned to face the approaching ordeal...