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...moment would seem to be ripe for dramatic diplomatic initiatives, but none have been made. The United Nations peace mission undertaken by Swedish Ambassador to the Soviet Union Gunnar Jarring has ended in utter failure. The Soviets, having been invited by Sadat to withdraw their formidable military presence from Egypt last year, are remaining relatively aloof from the scene. That leaves the U.S. as the only peacemaker in sight, but so far the Nixon Administration has failed to come up with any fresh ideas...
...EVER a superb 19th century play were ripe for musical adaptation on the American stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is it. The swashbuckling hero, the ever-so-radiantly-beautiful heroine, the villain, the grand gestures, the love poems and pathetic deaths-any playwright who missed out on Man of La Mancha would have to be almost a genius to blow theis opportunity...
Kramer was born in Brooklyn, educated at Brandeis and Columbia. His roots are middle-class and urban; he was ripe for Movement politics. The end of the sixties found him writing for the Liberation News Service in New York, immersed in the same moral and political confusion shared by radicals who realized they couldn't manipulate the world into justice. He discovered, as he implies repeatedly, that you're no use working for others if you don't feel you're working for yourself. He moved to the country to restructure his life; he is doing good work and being...
Contrary to popular belief, money does grow on trees. At least it does in Hidalgo County in the southern tip of Texas. It takes the form of oranges, all ripe and now starting to rot. The reason, according to Mike Wallace, a regional manager of Texas Citrus Mutual, is that the pickers "are lined up over at the post office waiting for Uncle Sam to feed them." Since December, the area's post offices have been issuing food stamps. The growers claim that the program has undermined the desire to work. The food-stamp officials deny this, explaining that...
...Administration's willingness to seize that opportunity, says Economist Walter Heller, "represents its best opportunity to go down in history on the economic front as a constructive leadership." The President would be opening a front at a point that most economists, both liberal and conservative, believe is ripe for a Nixonian counterrevolution...