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Immediately the Congo's unionists threatened a general strike. Lumumbists formed a "Committee of Liberation," endorsed labor's demands. Prompted by his backers, Kasavubu last week decreed a six-month state of emergency in Leopoldville, and a three-man junta in effect took over. All are Binza...
Greenwald, a political science professor at Brandeis and chairman of the Council for Constitutional Reform in Massachusetts, said the Council hopes a six-month convention can be called within three years to investigate a variety of constitutional issues...
Only in Tokyo did the rising young conductor fall flat. He returned there between Western triumphs last year, was signed by Japan's prestigious NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corp.) Orchestra to a six-month, $10,000 contract. Proudly, he got up on the podium to display the sweeping conducting technique reminiscent of Bernstein. But his imported hip-swinging was wasted on the musicians of the NHK. For 36 years they had served Germanic masters, who stylistically frown on conducting exertions more noticeable than an occasional swing of the index finger. The sight of the flailing young conductor reminded a critic...
...tourist brought out the worst in Michel Butor. A gifted disciple of French antinovelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (TIME, July 20, 1962), Butor is notable because he uses a different technique with every book and turns out intense and interesting fiction just the same. But in recounting his recent six-month tour of the U.S.-and in switching from novels to what might loosely be called nonfiction-Butor has produced a whopping-bad nonbook. It presents America in a nightmarish jumble of road signs, city names, ornithological notes and grim historical oddments all strung together in a style that...
Narodny's prime function is still to grease East-West trade, which last year expanded 10% to $19 billion. When a British or other non-Communist company makes a sale to a Soviet-bloc customer, Narodny will pay the exporter at once, saving him the usual three-to six-month wait before collecting. For Narodny's services, the exporter pays a commission of 3% to 4% of the bill, so that the Soviets benefit doubly from the transaction...