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Just before dawn one day last week, a greying, carefully dressed man left his twelfth-floor room in Manhattan's Chatham Hotel, where he was staying with the other members of Communist Poland's U.N. delegation. Suitcase in hand, he tiptoed down the fire stairs to the ninth floor, then took an elevator to the lobby. He left the hotel, went to the phone booth in an all-night restaurant nearby and dialed a Manhattan number. After a short conversation in Polish, he left the restaurant and hailed a taxi. In this manner, Dr. Marek Korowicz, 50, professor...
...small plane stood on an airfield in South Korea at dawn one day last week, waiting to take on passengers bound for the north. They were Polish, Czech and Swiss members of a neutral nations' truce inspection team which had been keeping check on the airfield's traffic. Just as the plane was ready to take off, one of the neutrals, pale, thin Jan Hajdukiewicz of Poland, ran from his colleagues to the side of U.S. Major Edward Moran. "I'm afraid to go back to Communism!" he blurted out to the non-neutral major...
...book, The Conflict in Education (Harper; $2), published this week. Educator Hutchins, longtime (1929-51) head of the University of Chicago and now associate director of the Ford Foundation, warns that unless the universities begin preparing students to participate in the "Great Conversation that began with the dawn of history and continues at the present day," the outlook for Western civilization is indeed grim...
...high and lonely road. His name: Francisco Cossio. His finest achievement to date: a 20-foot-high mural (opposite) for Madrid's National Carmelite Church. While Rouault's paintings glow with almost painfully intense devotion, Cossio's masterpiece gleams cool and peaceful as a September dawn. Cossio, 54, spent three years on the mural, hopes to finish its companion for the opposite side of the altar in another year...
...night of May 19th, he decides to forget about flying and see the Broadway musical, Rio Rita. But, by nightly custom, he checks on weather first. A surprise report: partial clearing over the Atlantic. He orders his plane readied for flight at dawn, and near midnight turns in for two hours' sleep, but only tosses and turns...