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...Western Europe. It would sunder the Communist bloc, nearly all of whose members have embraced "polycentrism" as the correct philosophy for relations between Communist countries and Russia. It would make impossible the conference of Communist parties that Russia hopes to convene this year. Nor would it be a military Cakewalk. Since Russian troops left in 1945, Czechoslovakia has built a 175,000-man army and an air force of 850 planes. Its population is strongly behind Dubček's government and increasingly anti-Soviet...
...mediocrity the past two winters, and there's little reason to expect a reversal of these trends in the near future. The Crimson's last stab at the top, in fact, was an ECAC semifinal date with the Terriers in March of '76. Following an 8-4 B.U. cakewalk, O'Callahan capped the evening with another hat trick of a statement: "Harvard's nice, but B.U.'s great." On that night, and in this sport, there was and still is no one to offer a dissenting opinion...
...single week, the entire political context of 1968 changed almost beyond recognition. Out of New Hampshire's frozen farm lands and bucolic hamlets emerged a new equation for the Democratic Party; what had once been a Cakewalk was now a slashing dogfight. From the nation's first primary and its aftermath in Washington also came some new and vigorously stated perspectives on the major issues confronting the country...
...West Virginia House of Delegates. Jay was so proud of the new center that he got his father, John D. Rockefeller HI, to fly down from New York for the dedication party, when the whole town turned out to hear the two marching bands and strut in the cakewalk contest...
...guessed, the book has its sentimental liabilities. But the show is an unpretentiously happy-go-lucky affair. Choreographer Onna White stages one rousing cakewalk number, with the chorus rhythmically seesawing its arms, that bears a remarkable resemblance to the title dance of Hello, Dolly! Imported Star Tommy Steele is a kind of cockney Bobby Morse. He has a boyishly infectious half-moon grin, and his ingratiating style is to woo an audience rather than...