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...response to Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin's assertion in London that a halt in the bombing could lead to negotiations, the White House answered: "Mr. Kosygin commented on the military action the U.S. should take, but made no mention of the military action the other side should take...
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin has apparently spent most of his time with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson discussing the chances for peace in Vietnam. He must realize, along with most of the Red leaders in Eastern Europe, that as long as Communist China is preoccupied with its cultural revolution, the burden of supporting North Vietnam with arms and materiel will fall increasingly on the European bloc of Communism...
...last week: in London, where Prime Minister Harold Wilson declared that Britain wanted to join Europe as a "pillar of equal strength" with the U.S.-and clamp a collar on American investments; in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle, pointedly turning his back on the Atlantic, told visiting Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin that "our Europe is a whole" even in Bonn, where West Germany's new Chancellor declared: "We wish to have relations of trust with every nation, including the East, the Soviet Union." Europe, in short, may well be on the brink of a major realignment, and Johnson...
White Nights. Being way out in front of everyone else is nothing new to Gabo, whose real name was Naum Neemia Pevsner. His brother Alexei Pevsner, a Soviet scientist, recalls that the family in the remote Russian town of Briansk always said of Naum: "He does not go through the streets but over the rooftops." The question was on what rooftop he would finally perch. Sent abroad to study in Munich in 1910, Naum switched from medicine to the natural sciences, to engineering, finally decided on sculpture...
When war broke out between Czarist Russia and Germany in 1914, Gabo sought refuge in neutral Norway, accompanied by Alexei and a third brother, the cubist painter Antoine Pevsner. It was there, according to Alexei, that constructivism was born. "During walks along the shores of the fjords and in the mountains, both by day and during the white nights," he has recalled, Gabo returned again and again to "questions of space and time and to a search for means of expressing them." He soon found it. In 1915 he constructed a head from intersecting planes of colored cardboard, later translated...