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...major powers, the only leaders scheduled to show were Richard Nixon and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. East bloc representation suffered from a domino sequence of dropouts. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu...
...Item: Reports from outside Egypt suggested that Sabry and the Soviets have agreed to send home 600 Egyptian students and 300 army officers training in East bloc nations. These could become the nucleus of a force that would thrust Sabry into a ruling position...
Following the kickoff, Crone put Harvard on the scoreboard with a three-yard pass to Freeman that capped a 76-yard drive-the Crimson's only sustained thrust...
...literature, its encouragement of literary talent, its building of cultural bridges among African peoples, its attention to black publishing enterprise, its openness to divergent views from the black community-TIME magazine focused on "range" and "militancy." It is as though TIME's editors had decided in advance the thrust and essence of the story they wanted to publish and then selected from among all the information they received only that which fit their preconceived theme. And that is what I expected TIME would...
...lived in a tough neighborhood that was periodically invaded by Oswald Mosley's fascist bullyboys. Pinter remembers that as an adolescent, he had to run a gauntlet of broken milk bottles thrust menacingly at him. Not surprisingly, the boy's imagination was permeated by the Nazi massacre of the Jews. The threatened knock at the door, with the certainty of horrible punishment for an uncommitted crime, was a sound of terror in his mind before he ever recorded it on the stage...