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...Yuli Vorontsov through the glass and concrete Sava Corference Center outside Belgrade. Both looked as if they had just pulled off some master stroke of detente. As a matter of fact they had. After seven weeks of edgy deliberations to decide the date, duration agenda and procedures for a higher-level conference this autumn, following up the 1975 Helsinki accord, the envoys of 35 nations reached an agreement last week in a surprisingly conciliatory spirit...
Enrollment figures also indicate that students apparently prefer introductory and survey courses to higher-level offerings. Economics S-10, "Principles of Economics," and Fine Arts S-13, "Survey of the History of Art," continue to draw over 50 students each...
...about to depart for Moscow, a sour Gromyko cautioned that his discussions with Vance were "just a station along the way ... major and serious difficulties remain." Some of these difficulties will be attacked this week as Warnke and Semyonov resume their talks. The toughest issues will undoubtedly require higher-level bargaining; thus Vance and Gromyko plan to meet again, on a yet undetermined date...
Both courses, which are financed by the federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, have impressed students. Wellesley's course, for example, is oversubscribed and most of its "graduates" have subsequently braved higher-level math, statistics or economics. At a third innovator, Mills College in California, a pre-calculus program that stresses the necessity of math for many careers has helped make math the most popular subject among the 850 women undergraduates...
...film, if not the war, ends at the outset of this decade. Finney has begun to chafe and drink under the pressures of holding on to his mistress and landing a higher-level job, and now looks forward to a day when "people will stay together because they really want to." Roberts has become almost catatonic, neglects her housework and her appearance, and stoops, desperately, to the last ploy she can think of to blackmail Finney back: "If you walk out that door," she threatens, "I'll klll myself, and the kids too." But when he goes she pours...