Word: extends
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President Nixon deserves some credit for being the first U.S. President to extend a conciliatory hand to Mao's China. He eliminated the U.S. ban on travel to China, and had the temerity to call China by its legal name. But the great chop forward was executed by the superb play of the Chinese table-tennis champions at world competition in Nagoya, Japan (see SPORT). Peking obviously saw no danger of humiliation in inviting the American team, which ranked about midway in the 54-nation field, to play exhibition matches in several Chinese cities, with all expenses paid...
...Trash. FORTUNE Art Director Walter Allner sees the everyday detritus of a consumer society in a different light: "I have such respect for the engineers and designers who spend literally hundreds of hours designing products and their packaging that I want to extend the usefulness of things." Allner's Manhattan apartment is full of intriguing results. Crushed tin cans have become fancy wall friezes; a broken wine bottle is redesigned as a stunning rose vase; and huge clusters of beer bottles are glued together to make abstract sculptures. On one wall, a shadow-box assemblage of coffee-can keys...
...made clear its determination to force the New York and American stock exchanges to extend negotiated commissions to all trades above $100,000. It is being prodded by the Justice Department, which has a voice in the matter because of Supreme Court decisions that hold the exchange is not exempt from antitrust laws. Commission cuts are likely to become deeper as well as wider. Some small brokerages have announced that on big-block trades they will negotiate commissions as low as a penny a share v. 23? for an average-priced stock under the old fixed-rate structure...
Side Effects. Tokyo has never lacked for master plans. The boldest was designed in 1960 by Architect Kenzo Tange, whose ambitious blueprint to extend the city out over Tokyo Bay attracted attention round the world, but was virtually ignored at home. Though never geisha-gracious like Kyoto, its sister city to the southwest, Tokyo has always made up for its lack of physical charm with a sense of rawboned excitement. Its pleasure districts are the gaudiest anywhere. The hub of the nation's cultural life, Tokyo boasts five symphony orchestras, attracts most of the country's artists...
...only once since then, in the 1950 pronouncement that Mary was assumed bodily into heaven after her life on earth. In Kűng's view, reform-minded Vatican Council II actually made things worse. It not only reiterated Vatican I's teaching, but went on to extend infallibility to the entire hierarchy. That affirmation was drawn from the direct, exclusive succession of Catholic bishops in an unbroken line from the apostles-a doctrine that Kűng thinks has "feet of clay" because of its weak biblical and historical basis. The most dangerous consequence of infallibility...