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Increasingly ubiquitous, they are even freer spending than the Americans were in their heyday. At Dunhill, the sedate tobacconist in London, three winsome Japanese girls wait on the busloads of their countrymen who visit every day and walk away with the costliest pipes. (Americans usually buy the cheapest.) At the Pathek-Philippe factory in Geneva, Japanese queue up to buy watches for as much as $5,000 apiece...
...example cited by the British of America's permissive attitude toward the Soviets was the performance of Secretary of State William Rogers at the Helsinki conference. Britons tartly note that Rogers made scant mention of the need for freer movement of people; they disparagingly compare his mild remarks to the tough stand taken by British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. "It is as if," reports McWhirter, "the British see a crude trade at work in the U.S.-Soviet détente-something along the lines that Moscow would overlook Watergate if Washington forgave Prague." Says Critic George Steiner...
...like all of the other left wing happenings, a safer, milder mannered form of the real thing. The kids would come home starving and the mother would tell them to leave her alone, she was now liberated. Or she would hire an extra maid to set her even freer. For this, A Doll's House was just liberated enough...
...agenda calls for three commissions to draw up recommendations on economic cooperation, security and "humanitarian contacts" (for instance, by freer movement across borders). A fourth commission would coordinate the work of the other three, which could begin in Geneva in September and last from three months to a year. Perhaps Pompidou is right. The Security Conference still has a long way to go before it establishes its place in history...
...Students can sue and be sued. Colleges will be freer to take students to court in cases of vandalism or disruption without involving the parents as middlemen. But the schools are also more vulnerable to legal action by students protesting against professors who skip classes or grade arbitrarily, or administrators who close buildings as a result of demonstrations by other students. Says Patricia Rueckel, vice president for student development at Georgetown: "The fact that they can constantly bring us into small-claims court is kind of scary...