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...mile Frankfurt-Berlin air corridor. Said one Western official: "It's part of what we call their 'weekly reminder' that they're around. They don't like too much time to go by without letting us know they still have a grip on Berlin...
...have so little food and clothing that they cannot take to the hills and wage guerrilla war. Second, they have no weapons at all. Even if the cadres are not completely loyal to the government, they are held responsible if there's any trouble. The party's grip still extends from the top down to the lowest level of life in China...
...government must act in its own way to reduce employment discrimination as much as possible. In the North it is spectre-like, "now-you-see-it-now-you-don't," yet its grip is strong and far-reaching. None of us can afford to be sanguine about it. A university naturally feels itself to be a rather special type of community. Yet although discrimination is perhaps less likely in such a community, it is certainly not inconceivable. If there is indeed no discrimination, the University should lend sympathetic support to the government's program. Susan Schwartz...
Pizazz, last year's big word, means jazzy touches for those who dream of owning a sports car. Pizazz includes stick shifts, grip bars on the dashboard, and bucket seats...
...Cannot Go Back." Belgian Astronomer Karel Cuypers pointed out that Humanism is the heir of organized religion, and warned the delegates that totalitarian ideologies may take advantage of the decline of organized religion to substitute themselves for God. "The loosening of the grip of religion has created great danger both for religion itself and for Humanism," Cuypers warned. "But we cannot go back. We cannot return to irrationalism and to mysticism without denying ourselves...