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...Milan. Said Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and Executive Vice President of Credit Suisse: "Europe's substantial pickup seems to believe recent theories about the inevitable stagnation of the old Continent in contrast with the youthful vigor of the U.S. and Japan. We still seem to possess talents for aggressiveness and innovation in world markets...
...been an enduring act of faith for all Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt that somewhere within their Soviet counterparts is the same human stuff they possess and that if they can touch it, there will follow some understanding. They write letters and wait. Mostly they are disappointed. The replies are boilerplate committee jargon. Roosevelt did a little better with Stalin because they were allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying...
Andrews does not possess, however, the formidable reputation of Thompson, perhaps the most powerful church official in U.S. Protestantism, who ran the Northern Presbyterian division for 17 years. At congressional hearings and meetings of the National Council of Churches, where he served as president, and the World Council of Churches, he has long been an articulate voice for the liberal position on such issues as abortion, nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in Central America. Andrews is of similar mind but has been less outspoken...
...European art film that rarely accelerates into the power drive of a slick Hollywood vehicle. Instead it tells its story in the form of a hashish pipedream conjured up by Noodles, slipping back to memories of 1921 and forward to a nightmare of 1968 as whim and reverie possess this gangster on the lam. Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror of two men warily walking toward each other on a tightrope suspended above the snake pit of their , deepest compulsions...
...several occasions, Graves said he risked losing his office on matters of principle. "The college president has very little real authority," he concluded, "but he has all he needs." Ultimately, however, scant the "real" authority presidents exercise, they possess more prominence and more authority than any single person on campus...