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...firms of Mannesmann and Thyssen will deliver 1,200,000 tons of 56-inch steel pipe, designed to withstand extreme cold, to Russia. The Soviets need it for pipelines to open the natural gas reserves of Siberia, the world's richest. In return, the Soviets will send to West Germany 52 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years, starting in 1973. To enable the Soviets to pay for the pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm...
Gradual Thaw. Most important, the pipe-for-gas trade indicates that trade relations between Bonn and Moscow are less and less influenced by the cold war. Seven years ago, the Germans had arranged to sell pipe to the Soviet Union, but the deal was blocked by the NATO strategic-goods embargo. Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged that he thumped his fist on a table and roared: "Even pants buttons can be called strategic goods. How are soldiers to hold their pants up without buttons...
Andover, which has been considered a Harvard "??? club" in past years, was sub-par this year, and disappointed a small but ??? contingent of alumni and parents. One departing alumnus tugged at his pipe and moaned. "This is the worst Andover team in nine years...
Otherwise heavily censored, the newspapers carry great numbers of letters from frustrated readers. One complained that there were no electric heaters to be bought in Prague. A smoker lamented that he could buy pipes but not pipe cleaners, which after all are "just a piece of wire with some rough string wound around it." Another reader beefed because the only shoelaces on sale were so coarse and long that they were suitable only "for elephant boots." Still another wondered if the government bureaucracy could not cut back on its quintuplicate forms so that the toilet paper shortage could be alleviated...
Like Bruce Baillie's Mass for the Sious Dead Gershfield borrows freely from our collective mythology, a mythology composed, like his film from a series of inadequate images. The Indian on the nickel pervades the first two minutes, documentary footage of Indians cooking, eating, smoking a pipe in full headdress. All the color footage seems to have been solarized; the effect is to remove most of the colors and warp the remaining two or three primaries, giving every frame an hallucinatory quality. Purple warriors move out to hunt against an ocher...