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What was land? An agreement that would lessen tension over Berlin? A treaty defining the future of Germany? A "general European settlement"? Last week, with a hiatus in East-West talks, it was becoming clear to some diplomats and journalists that the real question is not Berlin but Germany, the heart of Europe, and they stepped back to take a cold, hard look at suggested settlements-and their possible consequences...
...since, according to the Faculty vote, as many junior and senior Honors candidates as possible would receive individual instruction. Such new curricular hurdles as the Junior essay or sophomore year generals entered the academic program. Although the plan opened an unfortunate gap between Honors and non-Honors candidates (a hiatus corrected only a few months ago), it attracted more students into thesis writing and independent research. More than half the class will graduate with distinction; of a total of 970 degrees, there will be 28 summa, 13 magna with highest honors, 158 magna, 251 cum, and 52 cum in general...
...good sign, after a very long hiatus, that they're concerned with fundamentals," he said. "It's a very positive movement...
...week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...
Wilder took much less of a commercial chance in signing up Marilyn Monroe for her first role in two years. In Some Like It Hot, she proves what the psychiatrists, the social critics and press agents have been saying throughout the lengthy hiatus: she qualifies as one of the remarkable public personalities of the day. Her talent, as revealed in the film, lies in an ability to say every line as a double entendre-meanings that are not smutty because the listener thinks of both of them simultaneously. Her presence is like the telling of a dirty joke whose punch...