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None of the stories I have read about arms control affected me as did yours with its picture of the Kremlin façade. The Soviet hammer and sickle are a familiar sight, but I have never seen the emblem superimposed on the globe. That symbol evoked all the long-forgotten cold war fanaticism about Soviet world domination...
...were resigning from Namibia's 50-seat National Assembly, leaving control in the hands of. a South African administrator-general. The reason offered for the D.T.A. defection was, as critics of South Africa have maintained all along, that the local government was no more than a façade for decisions actually taken in Pretoria, South Africa's capital...
...Rome's Diocletian Baths and the triumphal Arch of Constantine. When it opened in 1907, luxuriously appointed with mahogany, crystal, brass and marble, its 760-ft.-long, 45-ft.-high concourse was the largest room in the world under a single roof. Niches in the façade held carved avatars of fire, electricity, agriculture and mechanics, each weighing 25 tons...
...cracks in the Soviets' façade of iron invincibility could hardly have come at a more inopportune time for them. The leadership situation is fuzzy. Their forces are still bogged down in Afghanistan even though they have increased their strength to 100,000 troops. Worries about unrest in Poland are rising again. All this adds up, in the minds of some U.S. analysts, to a belief that for the moment the Soviet Union is less inclined to take aggressive action in faraway places. Score one for Yankee ingenuity-something we had almost forgotten...
Parisians, who think of their city as a paradigm of enlightened hedonism, do not quite know what to make of a gaudy new encampment in their midst. It is called the Hotel Nova-Park Elysées. Its Second Empire façade is festooned with flamingo-pink awnings. Inside, which is mostly mauve, the action is known to be exotic and costly. It is said to be the most expensive hotel in the world. Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Plaza Atheéneée, the seven-story, 73-room Nova-Park has mostly Swiss...