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...original wrestling match, scheduled for Saturday, was cancelled when the Harvard squad could not depart from snow-bound Logan Airport...
Prime Time. The ceremonial portions of the seven-day visit will be televised live by satellite to a worldwide audience that may match or exceed the estimated 600 million who saw man's first steps on the moon. The President and Mrs. Nixon will depart Washington on the morning of February 17. After spending two nights in Hawaii and one in Guam (and losing a day by crossing the International Date Line), they should reach Peking on February 21, at 11:30 a.m. That is 10:30 in the evening Eastern Standard Time, an excellent hour for a presidential...
...days depart and pass, laden somehow like processional camels - across the desert of one's solitude," James complained. Yet he possessed the social energy of a professional din ner guest. A master observer of scenes, he sought his scenes out, commuting seasonally to London, and finally in 1904 returning to the United States he had last observed 21 years before. He traveled as far as California on a notably successful lecture tour, sharing with his audiences (at fees of up to $250) "The Lesson of Balzac...
...amnesty. Many deserters, perhaps a majority, are already being quietly discharged, mostly because many military commands are unwilling to go through complicated prosecution procedures. The most celebrated recent example was the case of eight sailors who deserted last October from the carrier Constellation as it made ready to depart for Indochina, and took refuge in a San Diego church. All received a general discharge from the Navy under honorable conditions, which carries no penalty and only slight stigma. Is it fair to let some go and not others, or to create a situation in which it is wiser to desert...
Diplomatic Switch. Some deck passengers will sail with Macmillan to the very end. Others will drop off at Port Said (page 179), after Macmillan has taken them through the Suez adventure. Even there they may depart dissatisfied. For Macmillan, one of the Cabinet few who probably knew all (he was reputedly a member of an inner ministerial group known cynically as the Suez "Pretext Committee"), chooses not to tell all. Perhaps inhibited by Britain's 30-year rule on state secrets, Macmillan sticks with the official version that Britain and France landed troops only to separate Israeli and Egyptian...