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Pilots called it S.O.S.-for suspension of service-and their 24-hour strike to dramatize demands for more forceful measures against hijackings brought air travel to a temporary halt in more than 30 countries last week. In Europe, the strike was 75% effective. Swissair pilots, legally barred from taking part...
Under Michael Kahn's direction, the American Shakespeare Festival has kicked off its 18th season with a production that is unflaggingly handsome and often forceful. It is a vast improvement over the almost rudderless version that the Festival mounted six summers ago, in which only Douglas Watson's Brutus, among...
Although entitled Julius Caesar, the play is not about Caesar but about Caesarism. Caesar himself appears in only three of the eighteen scenes (plus a brief apparition as a ghost). Bernard Kates plays him as a forceful man who seems much younger than his 55 years. It is hard to...
Nixon was less forceful on the other main controversy over the summit results: the failure to make any public progress toward a settlement of the Viet Nam War. He said the war was "one of the most extensively discussed subjects" at Moscow, and he seemed to suggest that some undisclosed...
WHEN Leonid Brezhnev replaced Nikita Khrushchev in Russia's top job eight years ago, Kremlinologists tended to agree that the obscure new First Secretary of the Communist Party was just another faceless nullity in the gray mass of Soviet bureaucrats. They were wrong, of course. At 65 the Soviet...