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...Reason for the move: this week Podgorny was to become the first Soviet chief of state to visit the Pope, and he wanted to make clear his recognition that the Vatican and Italy are two separate countries. His only chance for material trade with Paul VI rests in the realm of ceremonial gifts. But, if both men are willing, there could be an exchange of significant ideas...
Pinter always raises more questions than he answers, and sometimes the questions are unanswerable. Baffling the intellect while it stirs the instincts, The Homecoming operates in the realm of myth. Myth frequently proclaims the dark primacy of what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness" over the light of reason, clearly one of Pinter's intentions in this play. The dead mother plays a significant role in The Homecoming: she, like Ruth, was something of a slut. Thus the Oedipal shift of sexual power that takes place results in the overthrow of the two father figures...
...world." Last week, on Coniston Water, a small, deep lake in northwest England, Donald Campbell, 45, tried for yet another water-speed record in a jet-powered Bluebird hydroplane designed to skim the surface on two 6-in. sponsons fastened to the pontoons. His goal: 300 m.p.h., a speed realm that no one had ever touched. Playing solitaire on the night before his record attempt, Campbell turned up the ace and queen of spades in succession. "Mary Queen of Scots had the same combination before she was beheaded," he remarked. "I know that one of my family is going...
Dressed in native blanket and conical straw hat, he galloped about his Maryland-size realm on a shaggy pony, enlisting citizens' support in his bid for more control of Lesotho's domestic and foreign policies. Not surprisingly, such politicking alarmed Premier Chief Leabua Jonathan, who saw in the royal actions a plot to overthrow the new constitutional government...
...progress toward bringing the two Germanys closer together. He plans to offer easy credit to encourage "inner-German trade," hopes eventually to set up a formal economic federation. To soothe Eastern feelings a bit, he has already ended Bonn's long insistence on referring to Ulbricht's realm only as "Soviet-occupied Germany"; the new official euphemism, calculated to be less offensive, is simply "the other Germany...