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Poland's Sixth Party Congress was shrewdly timed for dramatic effect. Only a few days before the anniversary of the worker revolts that brought the country to the brink of civil war last year, Poland's crew-cut Communist Party Leader Edward Gierek, 58, summoned the party's regional leaders and local delegates to Warsaw for the meeting...
...managed to enjoy nearly anything: jigs, cakewalks, reels, buck dances, waltzes, blues. They had their heroes, but no super-stars. The reputation of a man like Blind Lemon Jefferson took a lifetime to build, unaided by the power of mass media. Today, our media have brought us to the brink of total cultural, regional homogeneity, and it would seem that the future of American folk music is the worse for it. Folk culture is a funky flower which wilts easily under the harsh glare of critical dogma...
...sitting on top of a volcano," said India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi before leaving London last week, "and I honestly do not know if it is going to erupt." The volcano is the menacing, brink-of-war situation on the borders of India and Pakistan, brought about by the civil conflict that has ravaged East Pakistan since last March and sent nearly 10 million refugees flooding into India. To cap the volcano before it strained India's economy beyond its limits or led to all-out war, Mrs. Gandhi was pinning her hopes...
When Kennedy blew the lid off the Cuban affair, Khrushchev had to scramble out backwards. The German question was never resolved. For once, America had been firm: but whereas in the past, firmness would have produced material rewards, in 1962 the U.S. pushed the world to the brink of the apocalypse and came out with little to show for it. If Ulam is right, and the Russians were after a treaty, we might all be better off had the ploy worked. The only beneficiary was Kennedy's prestige, and an assassin's bullet the following year made that gain negligible...
...Nonetheless, everyone in Spain is well aware that the country is on the brink of the biggest change since the civil war. President Franco has been showing signs of his age for some time, and his health is reportedly declining. A year ago, he distressed a visiting Richard Nixon by apparently falling asleep in the middle of a conversation...