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With U.S.-Soviet relations close to rockbottom, the rare COMECON meeting represented Moscow's urgent summons for present and future solidarity from its allies. The motherland needed friends and comfort...
...Budget Guide to Europe 1983 St. Martin's Press; $8.95. Tunisia, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, Israel: these contemporary meccas of American students are each thoroughly covered, along with a frugal European grand tour, in this guide issued annually by the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. Even more rockbottom, pricewise, than Frommer's guide, Let's Go offers tips on youth hostels, hitchhiking, overseas study and controlled substances ("The best advice is to stay away from drugs in Europe"), as well as sensible sightseeing suggestions...
...troops and the seizure of South Viet Nam by the Viet Cong. Washington counters with its own 14 points, which actually go a considerable way toward creating areas for negotiation-but which are easily misunderstood, unless the fine print and the implicit qualifications are kept in mind. The rockbottom, irreducible U.S. aim is that South Viet Nam must be independent. Under every conceivable point of negotiation-provided both sides mean what they say-this U.S. minimum goal conflicts head-on with the Communist demand. Nevertheless, there is considerable interest in the principal topics that could come up at a bargaining...
Quill, who rose to power by periodically paralyzing New York City's subways with strikes and threats of strikes, was as truculent as ever. He rejected an offer by the Pennsy to submit the issues to binding arbitration, held out for his "rockbottom" terms-including a demand that the Pennsy settle a union jurisdictional dispute in favor of his union. Quill still demanded power to prevent the Pennsy from assigning his workers to different jobs on the line, from closing antiquated plants and selling obsolete equipment, from contracting out maintenance and construction work. He even wanted his unionists...
...viewer, but simply to be enjoyed. Gerassi clearly enjoyed painting each one. They have the brightness, boldness and paradoxical vagueness that six-year-olds generally bring to painting, but behind the pictures' ebullience lies a highly sophisticated intelligence. Gerassi's Magic Mountains (right) is done with rockbottom economy of means: a few horizontal stripes, one with a sawtooth edge. To those who demand recognizable details, it may seem little more than a close-up of a rusty saw. But taken on its own terms, as evocation rather than description, it can have the misty morning grandeur...