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Honecker's cautious approach was dramatically underlined during last week's congress. In a six-hour speech, he mentioned the Soviet Union no fewer than 55 times. He never brought up Ulbricht's old claim that West Berlin occupies East German territory and thus should be taken over by East Germany some day. Instead, Honecker described the city as having a "special political status," an approach that agrees with both the Soviet and Western viewpoints. He also dropped Ulbricht's insistence upon Western diplomatic recognition of East Germany as the prerequisite for Communist guarantees on Western...
...said a six-hour conference he had with the committee in April was "no more or less" influential in his final decision than discussions with Law faculty members. But because of the perfunctory air which often pervaded the selection process, it is difficult to judge just how much weight student opinion really carries with...
...committee reached its decision at a six-hour meeting Thursday night at the Faculty Club. Director of Athletics Robert Watson has the power to overrule the committee's decision, but is reportedly planning to approve the choice. Watson is in New Hampshire for the weekend and could not be reached...
...kids to spray each other with whipped cream, or to play musical pieslast one to stop at a cutout target gets a faceful. Everyone in the 120-child audience receives at least half a dozen giftsand a chance to wave at the folks back home. During the six-hour taping, the kids are given soda and ice cream (sandwiches were once dispensed, but too many kids threw up from excitement). Brand names are reeled off at a rate that seems like two per minuteplus commercials. The show is so successful that Wonderama gets 4,000 requests...
Open and Free. There was nothing in the world about which he had no opinion and nothing in the world that could stop him from delivering one. As one friend put it, "You meet him on the street and stop for a six-hour conversation." He wrote enough letters to the editor to fill a book. Norman Mailer was still a schoolboy when Newman ran against Fiorello La Guardia in 1933 for mayor of New York City on a Writers-Artists ticket. He lost, of course. "My politics," he later recalled, "went toward open forms and free situations...