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...midmorning; people regularly besiege kiosks for the livelier afternoon papers. Others have taken to telephoning government agencies, radio and TV stations for information. Cafes are packed as customers argue over their foamy beer. The cause of the excitement is the transformation that is occurring in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček, 46, who only in January ousted Antonín Novotný as boss of the country's Communist Party. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 people were reading news that was as unfamiliar as it was welcome...
Banishing the Censors. Dubček is swiftly putting into action a program that his supporters promise will shrink the role of the Communist Party and bring a semblance of democracy to Czechoslovak public life. Among the reforms currently being debated in the party Presidium is one that would make the Czechoslovak National Assembly a representative body rather than a party rubber stamp. Dubček, who has heavy backing among white-collar workers and young technicians, is also expected to further free the economy from bureaucratic controls...
...General Westmoreland got on the Armed Forces Vietnam network to tell us all that this was the greatest defeat that the enemy had ever suffered. Ambassador Bunker got on to tell us that American forces and their gallant allies were having their greatest victory. They even had a brief dub-in from President Johnson in Washington telling us that this was a great defeat for the Viet Cong and a victory for America and South Vietnam. And that this was an act of last desperation on the part of the Viet Cong...
...seven years since he first began soldering his elfin evocations of the machine age, Günter Haese has become one of West Germany's best-known artists. Critics rave about his "artistic equilibrium," trace his lineage to Paul Klee, and dub him "the juggler of modern art." He was given a one-man show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1964, helped represent West Germany at the 1966 Venice Biennale. Last month his open cube of wire-works and quivering copper balls, Olymp, became one of the four purchase awards winners at the Guggenheim...
...most striking physical setting of any S.U.N.Y. campus. Designed by Edward Durell Stone, even down to the burgundy carpets in the student lounges, it cost $110 million and features four 23-story towers, overlooking a central cluster of academic buildings within a columned walkway. A few student cynics dub it "Miami Beach North," but Governor Rockefeller proudly orders pilots of his private plane to fly over the campus