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...plan to develop apartments on the extinct volcano's seaward slope sparked an eruption of Hawaiian sentiment against the idea. Said Biddle: "There is a place for high-rise development, but must it be on the slopes of your greatest monument?" Now embattled preservationists have begun to sway the Honolulu city council against the rezoning plan...
Seated amidst the gilt and crystal of a venerable concert hall, watching an elegantly tail-coated conductor lead a Brahms symphony, the modern concertgoer may sometimes feel that he is inhabiting a scene preserved in amber. In such a tradition-rounded realm, the conductor and everything under his sway appear to have been unaltered in half a century. His basic repertory is the same. The makeup of his orchestra and its instruments are unchanged. The auditoriums he performs in are virtually the size and shape they always were. Through an epoch of transformations that have touched nearly every human activity...
...rule out the possibility that some groups within the Viet Cong may indeed be searching for a way out. It is most unlikely that the Allies will offer them membership in a coalition government, but some interim formula could be arranged that would ensure the Viet Cong continued sway over the hamlets they now control. Eventually, a solution could be worked out along the lines of the one that followed the guerrilla war in Greece, where the Communists eventually achieved limited political rights. Such a settlement is never entirely foolproof-witness the fact that the Greek army has since stepped...
...grassy Tanzanian plain a stately Masai herdsman strides behind his scrawny cattle, a lion-killing spear in one hand and a country-music-blaring Japanese transistor in the other. Transistors sway from the long necks of plodding camels deep in the Saudi desert, and from the horns of oxen plowing the furrows of Costa Rica. Radios are replacing the storytelling dervishes in the coffeehouses of Turkey and Iran, and they are standard equipment in the tea stalls of Pakistan. Thailand's klongs echo to transistor music from peddlers' sampans; a visitor to an Ecuadorian minga, in which...
...Francisco referendum demanded immediate ceasefire and withdrawal. The Cambridge statement is more open-ended. It asks only for the "prompt return home of American soldiers from Vietnam"--implying that Johnson could do some bargaining, get some advantages before pulling out. That mildness in the wording, the CNCV hopes, should sway the undecided...