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When the ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization last met scarcely five months ago, it hardly seemed worth the trip to Iceland. As Secretary-General Manlio Brosio recalled before the ministers gathered last week in NATO's bleak new heaquarters outside Brussels: "Hopes for détente were so high that they tended to put in doubt the very necessity of a common alliance." That was not the mood in Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant...
...tried liberalism," says one official in the Curia, "and found it wanting." In terms of the men he trusts and consults, that is unquestionably true. During the council, Paul frequently relied upon the advice of such progressive non-Italian prelates as Leo-Joseph Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, Julius Cardinal Döpfner of Munich, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna. Apparently, all three have been dismissed from favor as unsympathetic. Today, the Pope's most trusted adviser is Bishop Carlo Colombo, 59, who is a knowledgeable master of standard textbook theology. Another confidant is Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi...
...victory was generally well received by businessmen both at home and abroad. At last week's New York Stock Exchange closing, the Dow-Jones index of 30 industrial stocks had climbed to 965.88, up 19.65 since Election Day. And the spurt, noted Ralph Creasman, president of the Lionel D. Edie & Co. investment counseling firm, would have been bigger except that "we'd already absorbed," discounted and anticipated a Nixon victory." Indeed, since the so-called "Nixon market" began its surge in August, the stock market has enjoyed a price runup...
...Tondel has mothered band members for nineteen years, and the band would like her to stay forever. "Alice really is a mother to most of us," manager Robert D. Whittemore '69 said this week. "She attends every practice, and is always there if you need her, providing little things a male usually forgets...
...fall, when the band is very busy with marching appearances, Alice neglects her art work--except for designing posters and programs for the band. "I'd rather enjoy the band than do my work this time of year," she said. "My jobs can wait, but the band...