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...years, there has been a letup of sorts in Russia's widely publicized trials for "economic crimes," which during 1962-64 sent at least 163 per sons to the firing squads. More than half of them had Jewish names, leading to charges that Jews were being made the scapegoats for a chronic Soviet ill: the notorious pilferage from state-owned factories of everything from lipstick to girls' sweaters, for sale at a profit. Last week another such case was revealed - and again the big name was Jewish...
...months, first in Devon and later in London, Sylvia wrote without letup. By the end of January 1963, her nerves were a shirt of nettles. On Feb. 4 she arrived at a friend's house, lugging the children. "She was in an inferno," the friend remembers. "Depression is not the word." For six days she let herself be looked after, but on Feb. 10 she went back to her flat to spend the night. The next morning, in an Auschwitz all her own, she executed what one critic calls her "last unwritten poem." The epithet is appropriate...
...Letup. He became preoccupied with Viet Nam in early 1964. He conducted a private correspondence with Henry Cabot Lodge, an old friend from U.N. days, who was then in his first tour as Ambassador to Saigon. Humphrey picked the brains of Pentagon and State Department experts-he has little time for reading-and became an apostle of Edward Lansdale, a retired Air Force major general and counterguerrilla expert whose controversial theories on pacification are now being tested in Viet...
...Auditorium for a three-day happening, or "trip." Slides of pop and op art were flashed on and off the walls and ceiling. Onstage a woman in a negligee was bombarded with raw eggs, a stark-naked Negro beat the drums, an acrobat bounced on the trampoline. Without letup, pounding music exploded in the eardrums and blurred reason. Most spectators joined in the fun. One wore a toga made from an American flag, another sported a sign reading: "You're in the Pepsi generation, I'm a pimply freak." A girl dancer stripped to the waist...
...second line of Paul Althouse, Murray Death, and Murray Stephen provides no letup, and scored three goals including the winner, in Cornell's 7-6 squeaker over Harvard a month...