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As if to counterpoint his European journey, President Nixon last week sent Congress his first message on domestic problems. In it he once again confounded his critics and tempered his cam paign rhetoric by proposing to realign the previous Administration's antipoverty programs rather than cancel them wholesale. As...
Border Dispute. The Bombay riots were a classic example of regional chauvinism. In recent years, at least 50 regional-minded organizations called senas (armies) have sprung up across India. The most potent of these is Bombay's Shiv Sena, formed in 1966 by a hot-tempered political cartoonist named...
Mother Earth. Much the same reception greeted Union Oil President Fred Hartley when he traveled to Washington last week to appear before the Senate Public Works subcommittee on air and water pollution, Hartley, who is a blunt, short-tempered executive, had dismissed the tragedy as "'Mother Earth letting the...
ELLIOTT CARTER: DOUBLE CONCERTO (Columbia). This terse, intensely cerebral score creates its stereophonic effect across the expanse of a normal concert stage, as two small orchestras, one centered around a harpsichord and the other around a piano-but both conducted by Frederik Prausnitz -toss questions and answers back and forth...
Pompidou is certain he could win. His handling of last summer's strikes and riots, he feels, was so adept that "a current" passed between himself and the country. Proof of the current was the Gaullist sweep of the special election in June, which Pompidou masterminded. The former Premier...