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...fashioned politician given to oversimplified rhetoric, who founded his career on gut-fighting anti-Communism but has become in his maturity a surprisingly flexible, even unpredictable statesman. At his side is Kissinger, 49, a Bavarian-born Harvard professor of urbane and subtle intelligence, a creature of Cambridge and Georgetown who cherishes a never entirely convincing reputation as an international bon vivant and superstar. Yet together in their unique symbiosis?Nixon supplying power and will, Kissinger an intellectual framework and negotiating skills?they have been changing the shape of the world, accomplishing the most profound rearrangement of the earth's political...
...have the proper cab fare in Georgetown, the Caymans' capital, the driver will trustingly tell you not to worry, but just to pay him the next time you happen to see him. He is not as naive as he sounds. Since the capital's "downtown" consists of a few square blocks, and the rest of the island contains only four or five hotels, the visitor will almost certainly see the driver again. This casual attitude reflects a life-style that is bound to change as the Caymans undergo the boom, and probably a good deal of battering...
...York opened on Albert Panton Street, towering above the simple one-story general stores and tiny grocery stands around it. A similar structure housing the Bank of Montreal will open early in 1973, and several other banks are building. In all, 83 banks now do business in Georgetown-33 of them have opened since July-which means that the Caymanians have one bank for approximately every 170 citizens...
...been a canny move by the Kremlin to quiet unfavorable American opinion, a leader of the Russian Democratic Movement was allowed to tour U.S. universities this month. He is Physicist Valery Chalidze, 34, who called for amnesty for all Soviet political prisoners in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University last week. Other leading Russian intellectuals and artists, including Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and Physicist Andrei Sakharov, have made similar appeals. Determined to return to Russia, where he is regarded by the KGB as a dangerous troublemaker, Chalidze told TIME: "Even if the Soviet authorities will only let people...
...leave Georgetown straight the night...