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Even with all these emissaries winging to and fro, Carter's own diplomatic efforts last week were the most significant. He played host to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd, who brought the welcome message that his country would not use its oil leverage to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East. Carter also had soothing words for the Saudis. Emerging from White House talks with Fahd, Carter declared that he and his guest had "no disturbing differences at all" on mutual issues, including a Middle East settlement-a remark that must have jolted Israeli diplomats. Carter bruised...
...proportion of the student body which comes from middle class families has been declining fro years, although it remains "substantial," L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid said at the meeting...
Vassilyiev's October Days 1917 (1968)--replete with John Reed, Mayakovsky, and even Trotsky, Friday-Saturday at 7 & 9; I shall Moulder Before I am Taken (A fro-American) Sunday...
There were prayer sessions from which rose chants of Sanskrit verses. Then the blue lights in the meditation hall dimmed, and the faithful swayed rhythmically to and fro. Finally, Muktananda proclaimed (in Mindi, a Hindi dialect), "Now is the auspicious hour of the auspicious day. The sun and moon are strong." That heralded the main event: the marriage of 16 couples, the women in saris, with garlands of flowers. The guru, who is licensed to perform weddings as a minister in an ordination mill called the Universal Life Church, blessed the rings and said, "May you live together in love...
...boyhood days in London when his mother, he says, "would occasionally drag me to fittings at her dressmaker's." In Demarest's recollection, "these were marvelous occasions. I knew nothing about fashion and cared less, but the vision of half-clad ladies gliding mysteriously to and fro was something to treasure during the long months of all-male boarding schools...