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...newsman who has covered Geneva since 1947 says that habitual attendance at East-West conferences results in a tendency to accept the arguments of both sides: "You come to think that the Russians object to controls because they want to cheat, and the West insists on controls because they want to spy in Russia. You reach the conclusion that everybody is equally wrong...
...litter the house with sports gear and mackintoshes. But in the House of Com mons, the reaction to Wilson is generally one of uneasy suspicion, and he is frequently accused of being "slippery." As the Economist put it last week, "On the big things-defense, the American alliance, East-West, the need to give Labor a twentieth century look-Mr. Wilson has been consistently ambiguous, indeed deliberately and cleverly so. These are the reasons for more than doubt about his leadership...
Tower: Descend to about 7,000 feet. Stay well east of the field so you can line up with the east-west runway...
...belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
...counteract the existing emotional preconceptions and the partisan vocabulary that clouds East-West writing and thinking, Johnson has tried to invent an entirely neutral language. It avoids metaphor. It examines not souls but outer surfaces, which can be seen and verified. What emerges with surprising vividness is a finely woven texture of physical existence in the East zone. Against this background, a Western reader, spurred by the effort to fill in the outlines of individual emotion only hinted at by the author, soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard...