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Despite détente, the Iron Curtain is still a forbidding barrier for Eastern Europeans who would like to live in the West. To penetrate it, desperate refugees swim rivers, crawl under barriers or run a murderous gauntlet of barbed wire, savage patrol dogs and armed guards. One of the boldest escapes of all was carried out last week by an American pilot, Barry Meeker, who whisked three escapees from Czechoslovakia by helicopter...
Picking up the Healey gauntlet, several union leaders responded by asking for even higher wage settlements, the most astronomical being the National Union of Seamen's demand for an 81% increase. The knee-jerk cycle continued last week as an incensed Healey threatened to levy still more taxes-a move that provoked left-wing Labor M.P. Norman Atkinson to call publicly for new party leadership...
...said: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever...
Andrew F. Brimmer finally picked up the gauntlet this week...
...WORLD OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. 400 pages. National Geographic Society. $9.95. Ten authorities on Indian lore have contributed solid chapters to this volume, but their texts run a gauntlet of illustrations, maps and photographs. This makes the package interesting not only to serious readers but also to browsers, who can find something worth looking at on nearly every page: 19th century paintings of Indian ceremonies and battles, color photographs of Indian lands, tools and dwellings. Nearly 600 different tribes (from Abenaki to Zuni) settled in the U.S. and Canada, and the book more or less manages to do justice...