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...Czechoslovakia nonforcibly, if not amicably. It is quite likely that they expected to find a clique of dissidents in Dubcek's entourage through whom they could work for subversion. Dubcek. however, was able to draw the line so clearly between the right of Czechoslovaks to run their own na tional affairs and Russia's in ternational claims as bloc lead er that just before the conference opened he won a unanimous vote of committee confidence. To the Russians' chagrin, the entire Czechoslovak delegation came to Cierna determined to render unto Moscow only what was Moscow...
...glance through the glasses at lovers in a Tokyo park convinced the cast that their stage kisses had been too tame. The uniformly black-haired actors wanted to wear wigs of different colors to make them look more like Americans, but Clurman vetoed the wiggy look. Only Noboru Na-kaya, in the central role of Hickey, was given a shock of red hair...
Cooke focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...Massachusetts, the full impact of Johnson's refusal to run or substitute a stand-in began to be felt yesterday. Many of the Bay State's most prominent political figures withdrew their names from the statewide delegation list yester- "NA," ten "moved," and the remaining five leaning toward Johnson or undecided. One canvasser said that he had been given 25 cards all at the same address, and when he got there he found that the address was a trailer camp with over 75 vehicles in it. After going from trailer to trailer and being told that "Mr. Jones had that...
...many have been disappointed A solid half of all the cards are marked "NA" by canvassers--"not available." Some of these people have received literature in the mail and some have been reached by phone, but to many canvassers the large number of "NA"s means that their work is largely insignificant. And the voting lists from which the names and addresses have been drawn have often been unreliable. Voters have moved, houses have been torn down, people have changed party affiliation. It is not unusual for a volunteer to come back with 40 cards, 25 of which are marked...