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...similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have to. But I'm not gonna burn a cross or reach for my rifle We've come too far for that in this country." That is a slight but hopeful recognition in a town that has clearly not come far enough.-By Kurt Andersen. Reported Lee Griggs and Don Winbush/Cicero
...talks continued through the weekend, the delegates became increasingly confident that a deal was imminent. The Iranians were surprisingly content to hold their production to present levels. The Venezuelans, who pleaded for a higher quota, agreed to accept a slight cut instead. On Sunday night Venezuela's Calderón Berti suddenly emerged and disclosed that the participants had hammered out new quotas designed to hold the oil price at $34. Iran's Mohammed Gharazi was jubilant. "This is the greatest victory for OPEC," he proclaimed...
...with regard to my complaint to you that The Coop did not have Hanukkah paper with the other wrapping paper you were providing free for purchases from The Coop for over $15.00, to which you responded. "Find me a store that does." I still regard the oversight as a slight to the Jews in the Harvard community, and I still find it irrelevant as to whether other stores have Hanukkah paper. Nonetheless I did some checking and found out that Filene's uses blue paper and Jordan Marsh uses gold. In answer to my question. "Do you have Hanukkah paper...
...carefully elliptical--more so than the book and the Auschwitz sequence, while suggesting horrors, discreetly avoids trying to show the unspeakable. The score is as lush as scenery and plot. The near-perfection with which everything fits together, technically and artistically, may be what's responsible for the slight sense of distance that hangs over this trio's tortured Gothic emotions. But of course, perfection being what it is, that sense doesn't keep Sophie's Choice from delivering the emotional wallop that it carries...
DIED. Leonid Kogan, 58, slight "aristocrat of the violin," cherished by worldwide audiences for his poker-face pyrotechnics and the silken refinement of his playing; of causes and in a location not announced by Soviet officials. A prodigy who burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...