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...meeting took place in a room in an artificial limestone cave carpeted with grass and cactus plants. There, following a dip in the Black Sea, Brezhnev and Brandt discussed proposed trade and cultural agreements. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will probably meet Russia's top officials in a more mundane Kremlin setting when she arrives in Moscow this week for a two-day visit...
...countercultural cave-twelve feet high and 15 feet wide-has the virtue of eerie acoustics: a single guitar chord can echo for 15 seconds. It is an adventurous, unlikely place for a party, reminiscent of that late-show sewer epic, The Third Man. Some older Americans might say, reflexively, of the rock-loving young: "They belong in a sewer." But as one participant explained: "There's no other place we could get together like this without being hassled...
Inflation is also stubborn because more and more Americans work for the Government or in service industries, where wage rises are hard to offset by rises in productivity. Public service employees have rapidly unionized and have often called illegal but successful strikes. Governments at all levels are prone to cave in to exorbitant wage demands because voters are unwilling to put up for very long without policemen, garbage collectors or teachers. In the past decade the number of municipal employees has gone up 32%; their total wages have increased 118%. And huge increases are built into current contracts...
...object to art as environmental sensation. The visitor is always being encompassed -by gas lighting or lasers or, in the case of Tony Smith's piece, by several thousand cardboard tetrahedrons and octahedrons supplied by the Container Corp. of America. Taped together, they form an immense, gloomy brown cave pierced by Wagnerian shafts of dim yellow light. With its emphasis on internal space and disregard of volume, it is his best sculpture in recent years...
Even inside caves people are not safe from bombing. Phosphate bombs are dropped around cave entrances; the dropped around cave entrances: the smoke from these bombs blinds those inside and eventually causes loss of consciousness and death. Those who flee from smoke-filled caves are later attacked with high-explosive bombs. In addition, the bombardment is said to include guided missiles that can dive into caves...