Word: european
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After ignoring the pile of matrimonial wreckage for more than a decade, the Communists are now awakening to its dark demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only...
...operas, in the awareness that any composer can profit by first mistakes. The second, a comedy called A Penny for a Song, presented last November, shows the composer in even greater command of expressive forces than the relatively primitive Mines. Meanwhile, Mines has become established in the European repertory, with performances in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden, and one now in preparation in Czechoslovakia. With three operas (including an early one-acter), four string quartets, two symphonies, and a sheaf of smaller pieces to his credit-and a piano concerto and another opera in progress-Bennett has already reached...
...effort to do that, the railroads are showing increasing enterprise. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, among others, have opened sales offices in the Far East. The Pennsy, in turn, has opened offices in seven European cities. The aim is to build up a business in containerized shipments that can be handled by rail after they are unloaded from ships. The U.S. railroads are pushing to establish a "land bridge" service by which freight bound between the Far East and Europe would travel by ship to the U.S., go by rail across the country...
...Moreover, as Founder Alan Weitzman, 31, points out, "They're saving while they're planning for the trip, which keeps excitement and enthusiasm building up." Now, for the 269 members who joined Club Internationale at the outset three years ago and have since been eagerly awaiting a European jackpot this summer, President Johnson's as yet unspecified intention to curb travel outside the hemisphere is adding anxiety. "I doubt that the European travel bans will really be prohibitive," says Weitzman, but the club is making plans for substitute 20-day trips to Central and South America-just...
...most outward respects, Norman Podhoretz, the 38-year-old literary critic, social commentator and editor of the highbrow monthly Commentary, fits a familiar pattern. Brainy son of Jewish European immigrants, his ambition fired by memories of a boyhood spent in the Brooklyn slums, he worked his way up from smartest kid in the class to a position of influence and prestige in New York intellectual circles...