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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missing party chief was Rumania's independent-minded Nicolae Ceauşescu, who was sunning himself on his country's own Black Sea coast. Was he deliberately overlooked by the Kremlin, or did he refuse to attend what was in reality a Communist summit conference? The question was asked with some nervousness in Eastern Europe last week; in August 1968 the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia was preceded by two Warsaw Pact summit meetings from which the leaders of Prague's "Springtime of Freedom" had been excluded...
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day every year, some 5,000,000 visitors pour into Manhattan. An unknown number of these attend the theater, and another unknown number are asked as soon as they get back home: "What shows...
...only two sellouts, No, No, Nanette and Sleuth, and even in these instances a last-minute check at the box office may net you tickets. Another myth has it that the streets around the theaters are bristling with danger. Nonsense. Every single night, thousands upon thousands of playgoers attend theaters on Broadway and down to off-off-Broadway's remotest reaches without being mugged. A far more realistic danger is that a show may have deteriorated badly since its glowing opening-night reviews. What with cast changes and the failure of producers or directors to maintain vigilant spot-checks...
Doing Right. Shared time has yet to be tested in the Supreme Court. The court has approved "released time," however, a more modest version involving no public money. Under such plans, children get time off from public school to attend religious classes. Although many "Sunday" schools are boring and poorly attended, they need not be. Since Bennington. Vt., closed its Catholic high school in 1967, an ecumenical group of clergymen has used a special center to offer high school level, religiously oriented courses on such topics as "How Do I Know...
...keep his 5-ft. 8-in. frame down to a trim 160 Ibs. with ritualistic daily swims. Pao is also an avid golfer, keeping a set of clubs in each of the three cities he visits most frequently, Tokyo, London and New York (three of his four daughters attend school in the U.S.). His wife never travels with him on business. Indeed, she is rarely seen publicly with her husband even on those infrequent occasions when he is in Hong Kong...