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...Thursday morning, the Emperor and Empress journeyed to Washington by limousine to meet the President. The grounds of the White House were packed for the occasion by an unusually large crowd of 2,000 spectators, plus a 300-man Japanese press corps that could match its American counterpart in competitiveness. Shortly before the royal couple were due to arrive, a small red airplane suddenly appeared startlingly close to the White House. It was towing a banner, hooked up backwards, that read: EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES. (It later turned out that the flight was sponsored by the Animal Welfare...
However, in those last years of the School of Paris, when French cultural chauvinism was quite as bloated as its American counterpart later became, Kupka labored under a distinct handicap: his obvious foreignness as an artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French...
Beacon Hill, like its English counterpart, Upstairs, Downstairs, is a study of relationships between social classes. The English version takes place in a land ruled by a centuries-old tradition of aristocracy, and the Bellamys are only a little less convinced that they belong where they are than their butler is. The originators of Beacon Hill understood that knowing one's place and sticking to it was a particularly British obsession, and at least did not try to create what would most likely be only a pale American imitation of the British show. But all the problems most commonly associated...
...coup. The most important testimony touching on the CIA to be admitted during the trial came from Andreas Papandreou, the leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and a volubly anti-American leftist. According to Papandreou, the Greek intelligence service (KYP) was heavily financed and directed by its U.S. counterpart. "I can assure you," he testified, "that these men [the defendants] worked in direct cooperation and correspondence with the Americans...
...soil conservation, herbicide use and pest control-a legacy of the decades during which the head of a collective farm was most often not its best manager but its most politically reliable Communist. As a result, a Soviet farmer produces only one-tenth as much grain as his U.S. counterpart. Reports a member of a U.S. Agriculture Department team that studied Soviet farms last month: "The managing staffs of the large farms are being upgraded, but still, compared with the good top farmers in the West, they just don't have...