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...readers everywhere, we also present in this issue a special section on the changing Europe. Our editors and correspondents assess the state of Europe's economy, culture and politics, and look toward its future...
Sipping tea at the Presidential Palace, Premier Pham Van Dong and Kissinger's familiar Paris adversary Le Duc Tho spent some of their time with the American in replaying the Paris talks, trying to assess each other's motives and tactics. They smiled often, obviously respecting each other's professional skills. There were few recriminations about the war. Instead there were realistic analyses of the problems that lie ahead...
...after a run-in with Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. Ziegler claimed Taylor had been promoted to the somewhat lesser job of protecting visiting foreign dignitaries. "Why are you going through this charade?" demanded one White House correspondent. "Why not just level about it?" "You can assess what I am doing here as a charade," Ziegler shot back, "[but] I take issue with that. First of all, Mr. Taylor was not fired...
...ideas in a form that is supposed to facilitate understanding, frequently lapses into technological jargon. That fact did not seem to bother the Harvard selection committee that awarded Fuller the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, a chair once occupied by T.S. Eliot. In trying to convey and assess Bucky, Hugh Kenner, a literary man who has written books on Joyce, Beckett and Pound, solves the Fuller packaging problem brilliantly. Instead of boxes, he spins a sort of geodesic Glad Bag in which Fuller's life, work and Utopian ideals are clearly and excitingly displayed, even as they...
...government decreed that distribution of food, clothes and other consumer goods was to be put almost completely under its control. A new distribution and marketing agency, headed by an air force general and manned by the military, will eliminate private business between wholesalers and retailers. Instead, neighborhood committees will assess minimum needs of local families and order accordingly. To prevent hoarding, shop clerks must restrict sales to regular customers...