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...Splendid Significance." Next morning Kosygin flew on to Hanoi, and there the climate was warmer. Thousands turned out in welcome, and when Kosygin called on President Ho Chi Minh, the atmosphere was announced as "warm and friendly." Radio Hanoi gushed that the visit would be of "splendid significance," and in his arrival address Russia's Premier left little doubt why. He eulogized the North as "an inspiring example for the population of South Viet Nam against American and foreign interventionists and their puppets"-which was clear support for Hanoi's subversive war to take over the South...
...evaluation of educational policy. The HPC ought to hold open meetings, and ideally they would evolve into forums at which concerned undergraduates and faculty members could exchange ideas freely. But in any case, this arrangement offers more hope for an effective dialogue than the present Council which meets in splendid isolation each month on the tenth floor of the Health Center...
...your artist, and staff writers produced a splendid article on Congress' Majority Leader Carl Albert [Jan. 15]. Serving as Mr. Albert's pastor, I have had the opportunity of coming to know and understand him. My wife and I agree that while the artist made him look too fat, the genuine warmth and integrity that makes him the remarkable leader he is did shine through both the painting and article in a fine...
Swift's rage destroyed human beings, but it created literature. Night after night the old churl sat by a snug fire in his splendid mansion and wrote hate letters to a world he chose to think had cheated him. In 1726, after six years of meticulous composition, he published Gulliver's Travels, the most profound and powerful satire ever written in English...
Despite the phony dramaturgy of the script and narration, F.D.R. is one more victory for F.D.R. His warmth, his charm, his wit and his arrogance are everywhere in the pictures of him. When the raw material is left alone, it is most eloquent. There is, for instance, a splendid home-movie clip of a dozen or so of his fellow polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light...