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...victory last week clearly went to the Czechoslovaks, who for weeks have been under brutal pressures from Moscow to abandon their program of democratic reforms. Earlier in the week, the largest delegation of the Soviet Politburo ever to travel abroad together went to the tiny railroad junction of Cierna nad Tisou in Czechoslovakia to try to force the regime in Prague to back down and reimpose many of the old restrictions on freedom that Dubček has removed. When the confrontation ended, however, the Czechoslovaks had successfully stared down the Russians, stuck to their reforms, and emerged with their...
Annamalai University is situated in the rural heart of Madras State, or Tamil Nad, South India. On its eastern boundry, lush green rice paddies cover the six miles between the University and the shores of the Bay of Bengal. On the west, the campus blends almost unnoticeably into the town of Chidambaram, a religious, as well as commercial and government center. Chidambaram's two famous Hindu temples dominate the landscape for miles around, visible proof of the University's ties with traditional South India...
Down to the Bone. Born in Sun Prairie, Wis., the daughter of an Irish farmer and a Hungarian mother, who each night read her to sleep with tales of travel or the old West, Georgia O'Keeffe never nad any intention of staying down on the farm. In 1904, an intense, headstrong girl, she went off to study art, first in Chicago and then in Manhattan. After months of stuffy academic training that was limited to imitating the old masters, she firmly resolved never to paint again...
...would have to lay off workers in Springfield, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Ind. in early November. In some areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week's end close to 300,000 workers outside the 500,000 in the steel industry nad been squeezed out of their jobs. Foreign competition was invading long-nurtured U.S. markets. The trade magazine Iron Age predicted that, even with settlement, the U.S. would still be feeling the steel shortages into next summer...
...other sets of Siamese twins. After more than four hours on the operating table, Connie and Bonnie Johnson, 10½ weeks old, died in Little Rock, Ark. The attempt to separate them failed because their hearts were fused. In Paris, doctors were hopeful that Michéle and Nadége Aubrun would continue to make progress. Joined at the abdomen, they shared a liver and intestines. They were separated when two days...