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Throughout the three-day trial in Rome's crowded criminal court last week, it was difficult to distinguish the prosecution from the defense. Both sides, in a torrent of rhetoric, apparently considered the U.S. the real culprit and not Defendant Raffaele Minichiello. A lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, Minichiello, now 21, set a still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken...
...IMPORTANT to distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the lowrise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
...significant emotional differences between the sexes. Winick points out that Alcibiades, one of the leaders responsible for the city's defeat by Sparta, was condemned by Plutarch for his "effeminacy in dress-he would trail long purple robes through the Agora." On the Acropolis, it was hard to distinguish the statues by sex. Says Winick: "Hermes and Aphrodite have the same boyishly slender body, girlishly fine arms, and sexually undifferentiated expression...
...first speech as president, the cool, suave Norwegian, 59, emphasized instead some less spectacular and more manageable problems. Hambro urged, for example, a halt to "the erosion of our environment," adding: "Pollution knows of no national boundaries, recognizes no political sovereignty and does not distinguish between rich and poor." This is hardly the primary purpose for which the U.N. was set up. Remembering that last year U.S. officials suggested that NATO also should start worrying about pollution, one might conclude that ecology, however important in its own right, has become the last refuge of despairing politicians and diplomats...
...public expectations (one could say, almost to everyone's amazement)-he defeated the incumbent, Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., by some five thousand votes. How this happened is an interesting story, but it is not my subject today. Mr. McCarthy then went on to be elected senator. He did not distinguish himself in his first term, however, and attracted very little attention outside Wisconsin...