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Braless and Barefoot. Kathy Power, 21, was the suspect with the deepest commitment to radical politics. A sociology major with an excellent academic record, she was frequently involved in demonstrations, including S.D.S. rallies. Her passport indicated a recent trip to Cuba. Last spring she emerged as a mainstay of the Brandeis Strike Information Center, which was established in the wake of the Cambodian incursion as a clearinghouse for information about student strikes all over the U.S. While the majority of the students working at the center were moderates, much of the real leadership was composed of radicals...
...Passport. The prep schools' competition is improving, and some of it is free. Suburban public high schools, especially in well-to-do areas that many potential boarding-school students call home, are now often on an academic par with boarding schools. For this reason, and because the admission policies of colleges have changed, a boarding-school diploma is no longer pursued simply as an Ivy League passport...
...Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of industrial penetration of the East by the West." German Historian Karl Kaiser said that it constitutes the first phase of a new security system in Europe...
...laugh and joke." Even without motorcycles, Americans are the object of intense curiosity and admiration, particularly in the provinces. Almost everywhere, they meet friendliness from private citizens, as opposed to government functionaries. In one Rumanian village, a couple of residents broke into tears at the sight of a U.S. passport. The visitors are often astonished by the discovery that many East Europeans admire precisely the apple-pie American isms rejected by vast numbers of American youngsters. "Hungarians really admire American materialism," a 19-year-old from the University of Wisconsin said. "They really hunger for the consumer goods that seem...
...complete control over family matters, even after his death. There is no divorce (though the Chamber of Deputies may well approve a bill making it legal some time this fall), no legal abortion, and a wife with children must have her husband's permission to get a passport. Last February in Rome, the small, left-of-center Republican Party organized a series of eight weekly seminars on the liberation of women. Groups are now operating in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Bologna. In November, the first of a series of public rallies will be held in Rome to discuss...