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...Russians. Largely because Beitz broke the ice with his smooth business and personal negotiations, Bonn this month will open a trade mission with embassy status in Warsaw, and negotiations are under way to open a similar mission in Hungary. Beitz has also initiated trade talks with Rumania; rumors persist that his visit with Khrushchev in May will lead in time to a new German-Soviet trade pact. Beitz is neither a profits-at-any-price executive nor as Red-Starry-eyed as the U.S.'s Cyrus Eaton, but he argues that "the great transition in the Soviet orbit...
...Reduction, when practicable, in the use of pesticides that persist in soil and water...
...make him the incandescent center of his cronies which keeps Peto (Tony Corbett), Bardolph (John Anderson), and Mistress Quickly (Raye Bush) steadily alive. That radiance has happily restrained most--if not enough--of those extremely traditional and extremely irritating ceaseless palsies, grunts, and hysterics which directors of Shakespeare persist in preserving in all the comic scenes...
...says. "But along with the 'fresh' look has often come the faded flower. Our collections are blossoming out with Torbidoes instead of Titians, and the names of Bartolommeo della Gatta, Alumno de Benozzo and Cecco del Caravaggio are found on those little, unreadable labels which we persist in affixing to antique frames." University art departments are also apt to suffer from acquisitionitis-the compulsion to get something, no matter how inferior, from as many periods and schools as possible. Advises Rich: "Put the prospective acquisition next to the Goya or the Rembrandt, to see how it holds...
...conflict between the CRA and the people of Donnelly Field led to the defeat of urban renewal in Cambridge. More discouraging now is the near lack of future for redevelopment in the City. The polarized attitudes that defeated renewal last spring still persist. Neither side will admit any wrong. Consequently nothing can really be worked...