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Ever since he was named Foreign Minister of France eight months ago, Michel Jobert, 52, has been likened to Henry Kissinger. The comparison must titillate his highly developed sense of irony. In fact, Jobert and Kissinger, whose clash last week was the highlight of the NATO foreign ministers' meeting, make a study in contrasts that tells much about the uncertain state of U.S.-European relations. Aside from a few parallels in their careers, the two men are as fundamentally opposed in their views of the world as in their working styles...
...Willa Cather, who died in 1947. In 1930 Menuhin, then a 14-year-old New York-born musical prodigy, first met the middle-aged novelist from Red Cloud, Neb., in Paris, and a fast friendship was formed. Last week Menuhin flew from his London home to Lincoln, Neb., to highlight the University of Nebraska's celebrations on the centennial of Gather's birth. His contribution: a family concert. His two sisters, Pianists Hephzibah, 53, and Yaltah, 52, joined Yehudi to honor the memory of the woman the Menuhins called Aunt Willa...
Crimson coach Johnny Lee called Baker's win the highlight of the match...
...least this hero begins by listening to the witches instead of hunting them. The ladies in question are the highlight of some uniformly fine costuming: in their white bathing caps and long rough robes they could be either flappy vultures or vulturine flappers, squealing and chanting their prophecies. They meet with one who is first a military man, Gullette is at pains to show, bold and strong but careful and considering nonetheless. He is still liable to fear--but fear of things within, of his own doubts and all those teeming visions. Gullette handles his role in a way that...
...strength is long distance freestyle. Captain Brad Gilman and senior Jim Bayles, Dartmouth record-holder in the 500-yd. free, are rated two of the better swimmers in the East this year. Their battle with Crimson aces Rich Baughman and Peter Tetlow, a freshman, could provide the meet's highlight...