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Banning Pomp. The French President also won approval for more regular meetings of the heads of government-or the European Council, as they are now called when they come together -with at least three sessions scheduled each year. As the host at last week's meeting, Giscard had taken elaborate pains to emphasize that it was not a summit in the usual sense, and he had asked that each leader look on it as if it were a meeting of his own domestic Cabinet. Only the heads of government and their foreign ministers attended the main meetings...
...growing shortage of primitive peoples, many of them now part of politically touchy developing nations which have set severe restrictions on visiting anthropologists. These days a candidate had better have outstanding credentials, the ability to prove he is not with the CIA, eagerness to share his findings with the host country and a total absence of subtle colonial attitudes. Even at home, the growing militance of American Indians is making traditional tribal research by white scholars more difficult...
...sending Christmas cards this year, quite a number of the world's leaders are saying their greetings in person. Last week, in an extraordinary burst of summitry, it seemed as if any President or Prune Minister worth a Gallup poll was either visiting someplace else or playing host to a foreign visitor-with everybody packing bags for still more trips to come...
Ford then got ready to leave for Martinique to meet this weekend with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Giscard, meanwhile, had an impromptu dinner in Paris with Wilson, gave a warm welcome to Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, prepared to play host early this week to a summit meeting of the heads of government of the nine Common Market countries -and got out his bathing suit for the U.S.-French summit in Martinique. If any of the political jet-setters should get confused and propose a toast to his good friend "Helmut Ford" or his old colleague "Harold...
...Harvard basketball team left Cambridge a week early this year, but not for a vacation. The Crimson headed south to Tennessee for the Volunteer Classic basketball tournament and returned with a respectable second-place finish, losing 84-69 in the finals Saturday night to host University of Tennessee...