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...Pyotr Abrasimov's pithy reports on the progress of the secret sessions ("What is long is good"; "Where there are roses, there are also thorns") have won him a reputation among newsmen as the leading epigrammarian among the Big Four. At the end of last week's three-day session he said only, "No comment." When Abrasimov is ready to be more specific, it may well indicate that a historic agreement has been struck...
...author writing in French who wants to direct a film made from his own works. Armed with his union card, an advance from the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs and a substantial stipend from a wealthy Frenchwoman, Van Peebles did indeed make a film. Story of a Three-Day Pass, about a black G.I.'s weekend with a white French girl, became a hit in France and a modest success in the U.S. Hollywood began hustling him. Columbia came up with a black-white satire called Watermelon Man, a dark-toned comedy about an obnoxious white man who turns...
...extended his tour of duty past the mandatory retirement age of 64. Convinced that war was imminent, Hart kept the principal warships based in Manila Bay out of the harbor, avoiding another Pearl Harbor. Forced to move his headquarters south to Java, Hart commanded the outnumbered Americans in the three-day battle of Makassar Strait, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese fleet. In 1945, Hart, a Republican, was appointed U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Instead of seeking election when the term expired two years later, he retired to spend his last decades on his farm in Sharon...
Last fall, he organized and directed a highly successful three-day symposium on black lawyers in America at the Law School...
Meanwhile in Old Lyme, Conn., Radcliffe's crew will be competing in the Women's Rowing Nationals, a three-day event beginning tomorrow. However, the competition includes several powerful crews, and the first-year Radcliffe crew is an underdog...