Word: dec
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When President Nixon announced on Dec. 30 that he was suspending air raids on Hanoi, and that the North Vietnamese had agreed to return to "serious" talks in Pans with Henry Kissinger, Washington was pleased, of course, but not at all sure that there would be speedy progress. At Kissinger's first session with Hanoi's Le Due Tho on Jan. 8, the atmosphere was bitter and frosty. Kissinger therefore tackled some of the less contentious issues first, including a mutual release of military prisoners and the technicalities of arranging a ceasefire. These were largely resolved...
Democrats to a victory of sorts in the Dec. 10 elections; nonetheless, the party lost 17 seats in the Diet (reducing its majority to 76) while the Communists, who won 38 seats, became a parliamentary force to be reckoned with for the first time in Japanese history...
...first burning issue of the new decade at Harvard was what a Crimson editorial referred to as "The Scrubwoman Scandal." In an act of monumental callousness, the University laid off two groups of scrubwomen in Widener Library, the first on December 1, the second on Dec. 21, 1929. A month later, the incident came to light in the Boston papers. The firing of the women, as the initial effects of the stock market crash were beginning to be felt, and just days before Christmas at that, would have been fodder for the Boston papers. The fact that they were given...
Died. Stanley Glaubach, 48, prolific graphic designer and artist whose wry sculptures in plastic, papier-máché and other materials appeared on the covers of Esquire, New York and, on six occasions last year, TIME (most recently: TIME's nutrition cover, Dec. 18); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...changes at Paris Match are more than skin deep. Since the first "new" issue hit the stands on Dec. 9 (and attracted an additional 200,000 buyers), the magazine has devoted more space to news and timely features; although the ratio of pictures to text is still fifty-fifty, the photographs seem chosen to complement rather than dominate accompanying stories. "We deal with hotter subjects now," says Photography Editor Jean Rigade. "B52 raids rather than National Geographic-type picture stories about the great rivers of the world. The beauty of the photos is less important than their content...