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...Needed Thaw. As expected, the Nationalists won last week's elections handily, and will have a two-to-one majority in the new Parliament. But they lost nine seats-not to the verkramptes but to the English-oriented United Party, a timid, ideologically sterile organization that favors token African representation. The tiny, anti-apartheid Progressive Party increased its total vote by one-third, and its lone member of Parliament, the spirited and courageous Helen Suzman, nearly tripled her 1966 lead. By contrast, Hertzog's party failed to win a single seat; all four of its M.P.s were defeated...
...Gradual Thaw. Most important, the pipe-for-gas trade indicates that trade relations between Bonn and Moscow are less and less influenced by the cold war. Seven years ago, the Germans had arranged to sell pipe to the Soviet Union, but the deal was blocked by the NATO strategic-goods embargo. Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged that he thumped his fist on a table and roared: "Even pants buttons can be called strategic goods. How are soldiers to hold their pants up without buttons...
...educator, Jerome Heartwell Holland has had considerable experience mediating between radicals and members of the Establishment. As a highly successful black man, he has moved with ease and authority in predominantly white circles. Now Holland will begin exercising his diplomatic skills in another area. In an appointment designed to thaw out Washington's relations with Stockholm, President Nixon last week nominated him to be Ambassador to Sweden...
...there is a still point in the turning seasons, it is probably about now. Astronomers put it sooner-when the sun starts north, but before Christmas. Gardeners might date it later on, when the ground begins to thaw. But since 45 B.C., most people have gone along with Julius Caesar, who with more psychological insight than astronomical accuracy placed it at the day now called January...
...Fanning and a squad of ushers were frantically setting up 6,000 folding chairs. They should have given one to the catchers. Mired in muck up to their ankles, their position was the sloppiest on a field that had been turned into a lumpy, bumpy pasture by the spring thaw. During the day the pitcher's mound sank by a good five inches. Expo Catcher Bateman only half kiddingly suggested that he and the pitchers "wear elevator shoes to stay above ground...