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Uphill Fight. Though both sides were claiming victory, at week's end the outcome of the vote was still too close to call. From the start it had been an uphill fight for the U.S., which had to dispel suspicions that Washington was in fact willing to see its dual-representation plan go down to defeat, the better to ensure a good reception for Richard Nixon in Peking. To be sure, the herd of U.S. diplomats in New York City last week looked like men who wanted to win. One U.N. guard was astonished to find lobbying under...
...Cultural Revolution. The fact that twelve out of the 21 members of the Politburo have not been active in public for at least a month suggests that the struggle is being waged at the very top levels of government. All along, however, Peking has been working hard to dispel suspicions that Mao's regime is in turmoil, or even paralysis. That may be one reason why the Chinese were so ready to accept and announce Henry Kissinger's impending second visit to Peking...
What he found was a relatively close-knit community, a "good block" with "good buildings" housing "good people." Yet the homiest of the five articles to run so far-long treatises on the comity of the postman and the everyday frustrations of shopping-fail to dispel the notion that New York neighborliness is little more than a tenuous alliance. In fact, Corry's best piece so far lists the precautions taken by residents of the "good block" to keep from being robbed, raped, beaten or killed: "George Bassat keeps a club next to his front door. Mr. Brouwer...
Seaborg foresees increased collaboration between American and Russian scientists on other projects, but his personal plan is to retire to California this fall to teach-and to resume the search for superheavy elements that won him a 1951 Nobel Prize. He hopes also to continue his campaign to dispel the growing notion, especially evident on college campuses, that science is intrinsically evil. "What is ironic," he says, "is that the very things the young people want to change can best be clone through their understanding and mastering of technology, of making technology their servant...
...keep the sleeping-bag and knapsack-carrying youths coming. What better way to dispel the odious myth of "the rich American...