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...Even then, Sirica noted, Nixon's recovery might not be satisfactory, and more time would also be required for him to review the complex case and prepare for testimony. Sirica ruled that it would be "unwarranted" to keep the jury sequestered "until an uncertain date in the somewhat distant future...
ECHO OF A DISTANT DRUM: WINSLOW HOMER AND THE CIVIL...
...east there was the sandstone Parliament building, its doors still shuttered after seven years of dictatorial rule. To the south there was the stately Acropolis, a more distant symbol of the contest to be waged. During the last three nights of the campaign, the leading political par ties came to Syntagma Square to stage their final rallies and make their last pitch to the voters - as stirring a symbol of Greece's return to democracy as the election itself. TIME'S Dean Brelis attended the rallies and sent this report...
What I said to your reporter who telephoned me, when asked about Harvard, was that I was too distant to be responsible to Harvard's particular situation, but that as a member of the Visiting Committee on Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, I did sense the women at Radcliffe were uneasy about surrendering their own turf until they were assured that Harvard was ready to accept women into every aspect of the life of the College and the University...
...movie is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...