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...first stage went smoothly enough, with the North releasing 1,032 captives in return for some 7,000 Communists held in the South. The second swap was delayed for more than a week as the two sides quarreled over the accuracy of each other's lists. Saigon says it holds 27,000 Communists, but the Viet Cong says the true number is many times larger. Similarly, the Communists say they hold 4,785 Saigon troops, but Saigon says the real total is 36,603. By week's end some 1,500 more Communists had been released as part...
Whatever their motives, the four held a conference sometime that summer and decided on a trial swap, agreeing, with remarkable forethought, that if the trade were not agreeable to everyone, all would go back to their original partners. In the course of this parley, no detail was overlooked. Each couple had two children, so it was decided that the older child of each marriage would live with his father, the younger one with his mother. There was even an agreement to exchange family dogs...
Thus Learning's regular monthly features include a "Swap Shop" of tested teaching ideas and a centerfold poster that teachers can use as a lesson plan. This month's poster helps children evaluate the relationship between laws and basic rights. Future issues will include interviews with well-known child-development theorists-Jean Piaget, for example, and Bruno Bettelheim-and articles by authors who rarely write about education, such as Science-Fiction Novelist Ray Bradbury...
...apiece. Of the $3,600 he collected for his last-place tie with Frazier, Unitas said: "It was fun. I didn't bother to train or anything for this. I just wanted to come down and have a good time, meet these other athletes and swap a few stories. It didn't matter to me if I won any money...
...storm of protest from art historians, critics and the Art Dealers' Association of America; one prominent scholar, John Rewald, wrote an article in Art in America demanding Hoving's resignation. Then the Met revealed another secret deal with Marlborough. At first it seemed that the museum had swapped two more De Groot paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, for Becca, a sculpture by David Smith and a painting by California Artist Richard Diebenkorn. Later the Met disclosed that the swap had cost the Met not two but six works - another Gris, a Bonnard, a Picasso...