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Important guests arriving unofficially at Andrews-even the most powerful Communist chief on earth-always receive a low-key welcome. But the understated formalities belied the potential significance of Brezhnev's visit. This week's Washington summit, regardless of the decisions reached, could not possibly match the drama of Richard Nixon's historic visit to the Middle Kingdom of Chairman Mao. Nor was it likely to repeat the cold-warring tension of John Kennedy's 1961 test of wills with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Nonetheless, this summit had a drama of its own. Here was Leonid...
...sift these and other conflicting claims of guilt, innocence and complicity, the Ervin committee intends to begin in a low-key, methodical manner. The first witness will be Robert C. Odle Jr., Director of Administration for the Nixon re-election committee, who will describe how the committee was set up and operated. Next will be one of the policemen who discovered the five men hiding sheepishly behind a desk in an office at Democratic headquarters at 2 a.m. on June 17. Then some of the convicted conspirators will tell their now-familiar stories of how and why they bugged, burgled...
...report sharply criticizing the whole merger design, and Eugene Carson Blake's own United Presbyterians, in a surprise vote, pulled out of the talks altogether. Then, this month, delegates at a national COCU meeting in Memphis withdrew the merger plan entirely. As an alternative, they discussed a more low-key approach based on practical cooperation among local congregations-sharing the same churches, for example, and experimenting with common services...
...Peking's Great Hall of the People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao-chi as "one of a handful of party leaders who took the capitalist road...
...such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester, N.Y., Jesuit high school teacher, Father William S. O'Malley, is in a different kind of show business: a role in The Exorcist...