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...Nixon will probably sound him out on Soviet and Chinese intentions. He may say some confidential things about Viet Nam for Ceausescu to pass along to Ha noi. The President will surely be cautious, however, not to seem to be too cozy. For Nixon is aware that the Ruma nian leader, despite his enlightened and independent foreign policy, runs a repressive police state...
...into intricate designs and tiny plaques. Cleveland's finely chiseled plaque of Christ with the twelve Apostles, probably intended for a book cover and executed in Germany around A.D. 970, shortly after Otto the Great founded the Holy Roman Empire, is an unusual example that shows how Otto-nian workshops combined early Christian design with Saxon severity. Seven centuries later, Adam Lenckhardt used a single tusk of ivory to create a 17-in.-tall Descent from the Cross. Commissioned by the 17th century Prince Eusebius von Liechtenstein, the piece is unsurpassed among baroque ivory groups, accordingly to Director...
...Iron Curtain authors share -or can afford to indulge- the Poles' ob session with political commentary. Mihail Sadoveanu, the son of an illiterate Ruma nian peasant, somehow learned to write, and from 1904 until his death last year turned out 120 books, became one of his country's most famous authors. He was in no sense an apolitical artist - in fact, he served as president of the first Presidium when the Russians forcibly converted Rumania to Communism in 1947 (which helps explain why translations of his work are now offered as the first fruit of a new cultural...
...family physician, Dr. John M. Stephens, 37, a rangy, mustached Calif or-nian, had his patient Xrayed. The fetus, he found, was lying in a wrong position and its head was much too big for normal delivery. Delivery by Caesarean section (less risky than high forceps) was decided on. Worried Husband Mariano Gonzales asked the doctor to do something to keep his wife from having more babies. Dr. Stephens said he would see about...
...Costin-Nian...