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...Another leap forward was taken last July, when the Vatican was formally represented at the Helsinki conference on security and cooperation in Europe -the first international assembly in which the Vatican was an active participant, and not just an observer, since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. China has remained aloof. Despite a number of goodwill gestures by the Pope, the Chinese have shown little interest in dealing with the Vatican. How to establish such relations will clearly be one of the subjects on the agenda of the Alban Hills meeting...
...next several weeks, already rebellious consumers will be asked to pay as much as 900 to $1 per dozen for eggs, 800 per lb. for broiler chickens and $2 per lb. for pork chops and bacon. Lettuce, tomatoes, fresh fruit and other perishables will rise immediately. Also likely to leap are prices for cereals, flour and other wheat and corn products, oils, many canned goods and frozen foods. When the freeze ends in August, prices of many other items will...
THROUGHOUT the seminar, right up to the end, many of those I met explained that what most appealed to them in China was its peace and quiet, its ancient ethical system. The revolution of 1949, the Great Leap Forward of the 50s, the Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the late 60s, were tucked away...
...doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an erotic leap to freedom. Poor Sonya loves Astrov-a futile, heartbreaking hope that exists only to be dashed. When Vanya learns that Serebryakov proposes to sell the estate, he goes staggeringly blind with rage and fires two revolver shots at the professor, missing both times-the ultimate, humiliating proof of his ineffectualness...
...Harvard-Yale squad were by Harvard athletes, including two by Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace. Vanderpool-Wallace captured both the long and triple jumps (which were held inside because of the weather) and set a new Harvard indoor record for the triple with a 49 ft. 2 1/2 in. leap...