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Located in the Smithsonian Institution's Victorian-Gothic headquarters building and affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, the new Kennan Institute will bring experts from round the world to Washington for all-expense-paid weekend seminars, short-term research projects and yearlong fellowships. Its goal: to deepen U.S. understanding of the Soviet Union. Says Kennan: "This is the only truly national institution devoted to Soviet studies. It can serve as an anchor in bad times and a channel for improved communications in good times...
...that have extra meaning for her (John Singleton Copley's Lady in Blue, Ferdinand Reichardt's Philadelphia, 1858, and Mary Cassatt's Young Mother and Two Children are three other favorites). She has found the times of day, the special vistas and the moody corners that deepen her enjoyment...
...admission to a graduate school of your choice. The first contestant, one Mary Sue Literati, starts out trading her admission letter to Yale for the surprise behind Door Three--which turns out to be admission to a selective concentration, History and Literature of Science, a department that "will deepen your understanding of Western man and still get you into med school...
...expect the reopened Suez Canal to eventually bring in $450 million a year in foreign exchange. Traffic through the canal has picked up steadily since it was reopened last June-though it is still below the 1967 level-and Japan recently granted a $100 million loan to widen and deepen it. "We are in a transition period and we have serious problems," says Sayed Marei, President of the Egyptian Parliament and one of Sadat's top advisers. "But I predict that by 1978 our economy will be strong again. If the U.S. could provide us with food-wheat, corn...
...Egyptians are well aware of the new realities of the shipping business, and are already planning to deepen and widen the canal to take bigger ships. Within three years they hope to accommodate ships of 53-ft. draft and 150,000 tons fully loaded (v. the present maximums of 38 ft. and 60,000 tons); within six years they want to be able to take ships of 67-ft. draft and 260,000 tons...