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...Famous Men. Famous Man Pablo Casals, cellist, composer, humanitarian, was celebrating his 95th birthday, surrounded by hordes of friends and mountains of letters, cables and presents from all over the world. The festivities have been going on for several weeks, and are scheduled to last for at least another fortnight; Nonagenarian Casals, with his 35-year-old wife Martita, has been enjoying every minute of them. He was depressed, however, by atrocity photographs from Bengal and observed: "Savages! We are all savages. To obtain peace at the rate we are going will take another 300 years. But we must start...
C.N.A.'s Tang Teh-cheh, 62, had held U.N. accreditation since its founding in 1945, and Lin Chen-chi, 54, arrived nine years later. Under a directive personally approved by Secretary-General U Thant, both were told without warning a fortnight ago to turn in their press passes. They had to be excluded, Thant decided, because C.N.A. was a "government agency," and the government of Taiwan had been expelled from the U.N. and many of its affiliated organizations. The rationale was plainly political and discriminatory. The East German news agency is also government controlled, and its correspondents are allowed...
...complications, physicians and counselors are trying to educate women to come in as soon as they have missed a period. Research is also progressing on substances that can safely induce menstruation when it is late. This would be not merely a morning-after pill, but perhaps, eventually, a fortnight-after pill...
...Nixon, looking flushed, happy and youthful. Abstractions come easily in such surroundings, and Bunker, looking tired but still trim and sage at 77, was nothing if not abstract as he fielded the questions of the testy, aggressive reporters, and discussed his reaction to the political trauma of the past fortnight. ∙ The reporters asked many of the right questions, and felt that they received almost none of the right answers. Had he offered Minh and Ky millions of dollars to run? Had he urged Thieu to resign, as Ky suggested? Would he himself soon be retiring...
...Profile. For the past 2½years President Nixon has sought to present a "low profile," an understandable attitude on the part of a man who had rocks thrown at him in Lima and Caracas in 1958. Noting the tenth anniversary of the Alliance a fortnight ago, Nixon pointedly observed that "each nation must take the initiative and primary responsibility for meeting the challenges of its development...