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...Soviet Plan. The Soviets at first damned the plan. "A conspiracy," said Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin. "It is unacceptable, of course." But a fortnight ago Tsarapkin came back with a counterplan that carried the ring of compromise. He accepted the U.S. suggestion to ban the big, controllable tests. In addition, he suggested that all powers "voluntarily ban, for 'four or five years,'" the low-yield underground tests that could not be monitored. Meanwhile, the Soviets would support the U.S. call for an all-out drive to develop seismic methods to detect such elusive blasts. For all its pitfalls...
...city to support, state-run Wayne has steadily lifted its sights. By all the evidence, it now ranks academically above Michigan State University (22,000 students) though still below the University of Michigan (28,000). And it has all of a younger brother's problems. Fortnight ago, the state legislature announced that next year it aims to give Wayne only 64% as much money as Michigan State, less than half as much as Michigan. Snapped Wayne's angry board of governors: "Shameful and destructive...
...Madison began to show up in the Negro sections of Midwestern cities about seven months ago, is spreading across the country with the enthusiastic backing of the recordmakers. Amy Records came out with a single a month ago. Columbia followed a fortnight later with The Madison Time, hired two teen-age demonstration teams, sent them out on tour to plug the new dance. Jocks who play the records on the air find themselves deluged with teenage mail. As far west as San Francisco, reported KEWB Program Director Bill Enis last week, the Madison is "picking up like gangbusters...
Saroyan began rehearsals fortnight ago with little more than a title, has let dia logue grow out of onstage argument among the actors, has written and rewritten so furiously that there are seldom enough copies of the latest script to see the cast through a complete scene. But everyone agrees that the play is pure Saroyan the latest gust of a strong second wind that seems to be reviving a 51 -year-old writer who has long seemed written...
...Giuseppe Pero, 66, was elected president and chief executive of Italy's Olivetti company, succeeding Adriano Olivetti, who, before his death fortnight ago, transformed his father's small typewriter business into a worldwide manufacturer of office machines and machine tools. Directors passed over Olivetti's son Roberto and several other Olivetti family members to pick stumpy, white-maned Pero, the shrewd, early-rising (5:30 a.m.) executive who has been director general since 1938. He is expected to let Adriano Olivetti's political adventures (i.e., his Community Movement) die, devote all his efforts strictly to business...