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...that a bombing pause might be in the works. There has been an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks, ranging from Peking and Paris to the Pedernales. Three weeks ago, Cyrus Vance, the No. 2 U.S. negotiator in the slow-paced Paris peace talks, flew home to confer with the President. Early last week Johnson cut short a stay at the L.B.J. ranch to return to Washington, and White House Adviser Walt Rostow canceled plans for a weekend away from the capital...
...addition to the element of surprise, there is the excitement of an in-the-flesh appearance. Harvard will not confer the degree on anyone who does not show up in person to receive it. If a flat tire on the highway prevents a recipient from appearing at the morning check-in, he does not get his degree. (He would probably be invited back the following year, however.) In 1901, President McKinley was voted a degree, but didn't show up. He didn...
...Corporation disagreed with Jackson's politics, but felt it had to honor him as it had honored Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...
...West, but others have carried on. After Russian troops marched in to close them down, most Czech papers published underground editions. Television newscasters managed to broadcast from studios over portable army transmitters, and C.T.K., the government news agency, opened a clandestine telex service. Editors sneaked past Russian surveillance to confer with Dubček's cooperative aides, promised to try to appease the Russians by imposing self-censorship...
Unattached Eyeballs. Grandville's favorite creatures were frogs, which he used to symbolize children, clowns, or murder victims, and he kept a pet frog on his drawing table. Insects, too, fascinated him. With his thin spidery line, he created a whole metaphorical insectarium-emperor moths confer with dung beetles, frivolous lady bugs are escorted by loutish caterpillars, cricket barkers play to snails and turtles...