Word: derring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cataclysmic Worries. In their private moments, at least some of the world's leaders might be tempted to agree. Only last March an article in the West German magazine Der Spiegel quoted an aide to Willy Brandt as saying that the Chancellor "sees everything breaking apart." Brandt was said to have decided unhappily that changes of governments had become meaningless spectacles, that real power was more and more in the hands of big corporations and other interest groups. The result could be increasing extremism on both the left and the right. If this went on unchecked, Brandt was said...
...sent telegrams to more than 200 companies that had signed agreements to keep prices down in exchange for an early release from controls. He reminded them that the Administration considered their commitments to be still binding. The force of his warning was somewhat weakened by the fact that un der present law, the COLC itself will go out of existence on June 30, leaving no agency to enforce the pacts...
...Russian support of Assad had a double edge. One was an ostentatious display of diplomatic and material support of Syria until peace talks take place in Geneva-with Moscow as an equal partner to discussions rather than un der Henry Kissinger's one-man diplomacy. The other was that the Soviets, by playing up to Syria, were trying to balance their declining influence with Egypt as their chief Arab ally...
Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour, and a Stan Brakhage short, The Process, Thursday, April 18, 8 p.m., Glauber Rocha's Der Leone Have Sept Cabezas, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Sunday, April...
Scenes from the Strauss opera Der Rosenkavalier. Sung and narrated in English. Tickets: $3.50 (students: $2). Friday and Saturday, March...