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...Caribbean island of Grenada has always been too good to be believed. With its beautiful beaches, verdant mountains, balmy climate and charming Old World atmosphere, it was "the one small island," Novelist Alec Waugh once wrote, "that provides everything a preconceived picture of the tropics has led a visitor to expect...
...second in six weeks, pushed from the headlines such problems as the oil shortage and a spiraling inflation. Alternately glowering and glowing, Kissinger was pictured on TV sets from Glasgow to Miinchen Gladbach as he shook hands with Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Alec Douglas-Home, brushed breakfast crumbs from the lapels of French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, and pointed a stubby finger at NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns. No poll has been taken, but the U.S. Secretary of State is undoubtedly better known to many Europeans than are their own foreign ministers. Newspapers...
Kissinger a new latitude of near autonomy. As Sir Alec Douglas-Home said in London last week, Kissinger is no longer an agent of the President, but a "creative statesman" in his own right, "who has the support of the President of the United States...
...particularly in "I'm One," and the opening of "5:15." He plays with power, though. Live versions of "Bell Boy" and "The Punk Meets the Godfather" were exercises in controlled violence--loud, vehement, essential--sinple progressions and lines manipulated through pure volume to extract peak effect. Bassist John Alec Entwhistle continues to anchor the band. Dour, rigid, dressed in black, surrounded by performers, he receives little attention. Yet often as not he's playing as much of the lead as Townshend; his progressions on "The Real Me," and his work with Keith Moon on "Drowned" were truly stunning. Roger...
British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home said that he believes Kosygin is in Cairo seeking peace. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) predicted a cease-fire would come in a matter of days rather than weeks, but he gave no evidence to support his prediction...