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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With national parliamentary elections just a year away, most political observers concede the leftists a better than even chance of gaining control of the National Assembly. To map a new political strategy, Giscard gathered his troops last week in a rare full session of the Council of Ministers. Reported one government aide: "It was a kind of mea culpa session. We admitted our errors." Some Cabinet members may be forced to pay for these errors with their seats, for a government shake-up is expected...
...map out a program despite these difficulties, Schlesinger has holed himself up in a bright, pleasant White House suite only a 30-second walk from the Oval Office. There he is surrounded by charts showing excessive U.S. use of energy (Americans burn approximately twice as much fuel per person as West Germans, who have roughly comparable living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger...
...director Norman Ayrton's credit that throughout most of the two and a half hours of War and Peace, the historian's illusion of control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across the map of Europe and at times stain the background with a dull blood red, Ayrton gives the soldiers' disordered flights a suggestive significance beyond the mere chronicling of events. And by frequently isolating the characters at opposite ends of the stages, Ayrton lends to the few joint tableaux an emotional compression that...
...Piao's] men drew up a sketch map of our residences and were going to attack and bomb them and finish us off all at once." More pointedly, she said that during the time Lin Piao's men controlled their residence he arranged for toxic substances to be added gradually to the meals consumed by Chairman Mao and her. They became ill, and she remained ill, especially neurologically, during most of 1969. Only recently had she recovered, she added...
Wellesley College, meanwhile, is using a different approach. Its "Discovery Course in Elementary Math and Its Application," now in its third semester, peddles soft-core math, or math disguised as games. Sample puzzle: the 15 or so students, seated in a circle, are given a map and told to color each country, using as few colors as possible and making sure that the same color is not used for adjacent countries (the purpose: to learn network theory). Says Alice Schafer, the program's director: "The goal of the students is to solve the problem, while that of the instructors...