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...second installment of TIME'S excerpts from Years of Upheaval, Volume 2 of Kissinger's memoirs, tells of an Administration under siege. It deals with the gathering impact of Watergate as a torrent of disclosures burst upon the nation. Then it describes Watergate's climax and America's catharsis in the premature end of the Nixon Administration. Also in this issue are an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles of the two men who were Nixon's closest aides until they were jettisoned for their involvement...
...declared in Poland last Dec. 13. The speeches were too much for Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid Ilyichev. Said he: "We resolutely oppose the efforts forts of of the the NATO bloc, and of of the U.S. in particular, to put on yet another political farce." The torrent of Western condemnation, interrupted only sporadically by East bloc protests, continued for 4½ hours before the hapless presiding chairman, Jozef Wiejacz, Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister, abruptly recognized a Czechoslovak motion to adjourn the day's session, a move made presumably at Soviet insistence. Wiejacz's parliamentary maneuver...
...whose occupations begin with B, plus a Beaver) in search of an inconceivable creature. It will ultimately consume one of them. At the end, there is no convenient awakening from a dream, as in Alice's adventures, no consolation of an afterlife. All that remains is "a torrent of laughter . . . Then, silence." The Hunting surfaces in Finnegans Wake and powerfully influenced T.S. Eliot. Auden compared it with Moby Dick and advanced it as a metaphor for "mankind and human society moving through time and struggling with its destiny...
...heroism: unafraid to seem shrill or pouty, she allows Louise's strength to emerge through her decisions to follow Jack and fight him, to walk out of his life and fight to get back in, to be his and still be herself. Beatty, the master charmer, uses a torrent of words and his sweet-faced stare to persuade us that have Jack and his brand of robust idealism have meaning for a world-and a movie world-mired in cynicism and reaction. Beatty's soaring spirit infected the Reds crew, from Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to Production Designer Richard...
Revolted by a steadily increasing torrent of trash, Massachusetts environmentalists have lobbied for years to get a bill on the books requiring returnable beverage cans and bottles. Back in 1979, the first time they succeeded in getting a bill through the state legislature, Governor Edward King vetoed it. When the measure was passed again last September, King cast a second veto. But this time the state house of representatives overrode the veto. And last week the Massachusetts senate voted 29 to 10 to override the Governor...