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...between the Khrushchev line, which holds that to avoid nuclear disaster capitalism must be fought through peaceful means, and the Mao Tse-tung line, which demands an aggressive policy. Coming on in the first session at the Kremlin's modern Hall of Congresses, Japan's kimono-clad Fuki Kushida demanded the withdrawal of U.S. "aggressive forces" from South Viet Nam, Formosa, Okinawa, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. In a simpler period of Communist history, this might have passed almost unnoticed as the standard line, East or West. But now there was a sudden movement...
...looked like a revival of The Green Pastures. Or maybe a toga-clad troupe whooping it up in ancient Rome. But all those friends, Romans, and countrymen turned out to be simply the Order of the Biltmore Bath, gathered in Manhattan for a 75th-birthday celebration honoring James Aloysius Farley, grand old man of the Democratic Party and the Coca-Cola Co. Politically, says Farley, he is "not very active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among...
...throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles of the Imperial Bodyguard Band...
...fluent article called "Beersheba: On the Frontier" Cowan analyzes the problems created by the massive influx of North African refuges into Israel. As Cowan points out, in recent years the nation's population balance has shifted and more than half of all Israelis are non-European. Assimilating these ill-clad, uneducated North Africans to Israel's westernized, Hebrew-speaking official culture is the task of decades. Cowan cites many fascinating individual cases to show the kinds of prejudice and frustration that arise when German meets Tunisian in the Promised Land. This is a remarkable article (hopefully Cowan will expand...
...last the lake burst upon us, a noble sheet of blue water . . . walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full 3,000 feet higher still. As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords...