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Griggs, who has been covering South Africa off and on since 1959, concludes: "John Vorster has repeatedly promised change, and then has brought about nothing more than minor cosmetic revisions. In the meantime, he has built up a police-state apparatus that gives his government virtually unlimited powers of detention without trial. These are not the moves of a man who is about to compromise. Rather than relieve the mounting pressure, he appears to be preparing to confront it, and possibly turn South Africa into a battleground. If Vorster opts for repression over conciliation, I am afraid I cannot...
Anyone who has ever even tasted salt water knows who Jacques Cousteau is, name is synonymous with oceanography. This is the man who brought the world Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus--better known as SCUBA--and helped popularize it with his dives into virtually all of the planet's deep waters. Costeau, who is getting on in years, is something of a legend in his own time. He will speak at 8 p.m. in the Pound Building of the Harvard Law School. There is a $2.00 admission charge...
Labor chiefs dismiss the setbacks as temporary. They admit that the customarily well-oiled AFL-CIO lobbying apparatus stumbled badly on the common-situs bill by ignoring warnings that the measure was in trouble until 48 hours before the vote. But, says Thomas Donahue, Meany's top assistant, "when you knock us down once, you don't get any prize. We've been down before, dusted ourselves off, and come back-and we will again...
...James Ensor, and in the paintings he made in the last two decades of the 19th century, the characters and props of the demonic tradition take their final curtain call: the persecuted Christ, the scrawny monsters, the whole malevolent apparatus of hooks and claws, skeletons and distended orifices, grimacing masks and threatening crowds that had served European artists so well up to the death of Goya. The Guggenheim Museum's current retrospective of Ensor, more than 110 pieces, tries to present him as a modern artist, which he was not. Ensor's was a solo...
...understanding that we are in no way obligated by this to voice positions favorable to the Park regime. In fact, we wish to take this occasion to affirm our opposition to the measures taken by the Park government to suppress basic human liberties within South Korea. The widespread control apparatus maintained by the Korean CIA, the torturing, imprisonment, and even execution of Korean citizens because they have spoken out against the regime, the censorship of the Korean press and postal system, and, most of all, the intense aura of fear created by these actions--all of these are abhorrent...