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...confidently stepped through all of the required public paces and signed the Helsinki declaration (see THE WORLD) with a warning that "we had better say what we mean and mean what we say or we will have the anger of our citizens to answer." But as he turned homeward this week, with stops in Rumania and Yugoslavia. Ford could count on very few of the personal political gains that customarily follow a presidential trip abroad. His stature at home may, in fact, have slipped...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...
...summer; blink twice and it's gone. Thanks to the publisher for bringing it back. Now, let's have J.B. Pick's The Last Valley again. And John Graves' Goodbye to a River and Journey Into Fear. Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke. Even Look Homeward, Angel. Riches untold, retold. Terrible risks. ∙John Skow
...somewhat gray. But it was spring, and the crowds of Dubliners bustling homeward at 5:30 p.m. last Friday were looking forward to a fine Irish weekend. What 23 of them got instead was sudden death as three powerful bombs exploded in the center of the capital. Another 137 were wounded, many critically. It was the worst disaster in the history of the Republic and a far bloodier Friday than the infamous "Bloody Friday" of July 21, 1972, when nine were killed and 130 injured in a series of bombings in Belfast. The hatred of Ulster, where more than...
...agree on numbers and formulas that would create genuine parity between their nuclear forces. Kissinger's estimate of the situation was that "there was no breakthrough, but we made definite progress. There's a chance for agreement but no guarantee." Observed one high U.S. diplomat on the homeward flight from Moscow: "It did not go as far as Dobrynin had said it might. Perhaps the Secretary was too optimistic in following his lead...