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...with astonishing regularity. The resignation of West Germany's Willy Brandt and the downfall of Canada's Trudeau government signaled a new high mark on the political Richter scale. This has been a remarkable period for World Senior Editor John T. Elson, whose job offers a rare overview of the international scene. Presiding over a staff of 14 writers and reporter-researchers, Elson is also in daily contact with TIME'S 21 bureaus outside the U.S. He requests and monitors dispatches from abroad, determines each week's assignments and edits the section's wide range...
...those opposing U.S. defiance of the United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia, I read with interest "A Rhodesian Remembers" (Crimson, March 13, 1974). Michael Massing's article was a good overview of this complex life-and-death struggle, with one glaring exception. Mr. Massing referred to Eddison Zvobgo, Deputy General Secretary of the Zimbabe African Nationalist Union (ZANU), merely as "Eddison." If the omission of Mr. Zvogbo's surname was not a typographical error, it is probably one of those "unintentional" slights so typical of how non-white people are commonly treated by whites. I would hope that this small...
...appropriate circle and with the other end traced out the necessary arc. Once the designers established the proper relationships between lines, arcs, center points and radii for a figure, says Reiche, they could plot them on a large scale for the full-sized drawing-even without an overview of the whole area. Proof of her theory, she says, lies in the fact that many drawings are pockmarked with stones and holes at points that are indeed centers for appropriate arcs...
...process, the viewer receives a game of infinite hue and complexity, an amalgam of ballet, combat, chess and mugging. No matter how fine his TV reception, no beer-and-armchair quarterback can hope to see the true game. For all the paraphernalia, the tube rarely shows an overview; pass patterns and geometric variations are lost in a kaleidoscope of closeups and crunches...
...program like this is important because it gives you an overview of other people's responsibilities and the pressures under which they function," she said...