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...CITY of indivisible existence. Most cities differ from one another in the form and order of their buildings, but "as soon as the stranger arrives at the unknown city and his eye penetrates the pine cone of pagodas and garrets and haymows ... he immediately distinguishes which are the princes' palaces, the high priests' temples, the tavern, the prison, the slum...
...industrial world, capitalist countries differ strikingly...
Steep Price. The Christian Democrats will be pressed hard by the Socialists, whose economic program does not differ seriously from the Communists'. In the past, the government could always control the Socialists by threatening to form a coalition with right-wing parties, but last week's vote makes that virtually impossible. Thus the Socialists are in a position to demand a steep price for continuing to support the Christian Democrats in a center-left government. They may insist, for example, on getting two of the three key Cabinet seats-Interior, Defense and Foreign Affairs. If they are denied...
...Cambridge-based academics who participated in the antiwar movement in the '60s and '70s agree that the United States engaged in criminal activities in Indochina and that the war crimes issue remains a significant one, but differ drastically on the lessons to be drawn from American involvement in Indochina. Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor at MIT, says that if there were war crimes trials, they should focus primarily on the question of U.S. aggression against Vietnam and Cambodia. It would be naive to concentrate on the brutality of the U.S. war effort, Chomsky said in an interview last week, since...
...most sought-after experts aboard was Dr. Georges M. Halpern, vice president of France's Société de Gastronomie Médicale, who was perhaps the slimmest man aboard. One of his secrets, he confided, is to eat and make love with equal ardor; although figures differ, Halpern averred that sex on the average consumes 100 calories per minute. On disembarking with his Japanese wife, le docteur observed happily that in the course of the cruise he had shed one pound...