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Geneva's staid old lakefront hotels looked like Chicago during a political convention last week. In crowded bars and smoke-filled rooms, politicians hammered out compromises, lined up voting blocs, and kept ears to the ground for reaction from the folks back home. The occasion: the 19th semiannual meeting of the 39 nations that are parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which has as its aim worldwide liberalization of trade...
Still nervous about having rebels in town, the security-conscious Swiss refused to allow Krim to hold regular press conferences, instead set up a closed TV circuit between Krim's heavily guarded villa on the Geneva lakefront and the Maison de la Presse, three miles away, where Krim's image was projected on a huge screen in the main auditorium. First subject on Krim's mind was De Gaulle's unilateral declaration of a cease-fire in Algeria. Instead of welcoming an end to the fighting, Krim denounced it as "blackmail," called it "premature from...
Eighty thousand Soviet jackboots slapped against Red Square as Moscow celebrated May Day last week. Thousands of miles away, the U.S. was commemorating a different kind of day-Law Day-in 100,000 peaceful ceremonies. On Chicago's lakefront, 959 aliens held their right arms high to pledge allegiance to a system of justice under the law, and were sworn in as new citizens. From Portland. Ore., to Hillsboro, Texas, high school students acted as jurors in mock trials. Atlanta ministers delivered sermons. Seattle TV stations presented programs, San Diego lawyers met with foreign-exchange students-all to explain...
...darkrooms at the Washington Bureau. When the developing process was finished three hours later, TIME Art Director Michael J. Phillips picked up the just-dry transparencies, caught a 4:45 p.m. Electra flight to Chicago, carried the films to TIME'S central printing plant near the lakefront. There he selected one of the prints for the cover and, consulting with the editors in New York, prepared a layout...
...shells. But though Chicago, in its own sullen and grimy way, has afforded millions of conventioneers a variety of pleasures, its convention facilities have grown woefully inadequate over the years. Last week the city solved that problem with the opening of a brand-new hall, the $35 million lakefront McCormick Place, "larger than the Circus Maximus of ancient Rome and more durable than the Colosseum...