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...Soviet Union will begin construction of new embassy facilities in Washington and Moscow. The 550 Russians in Washington, now spread out in five buildings in the capital, will occupy a new compound that includes a twelve-story office tower and residences, to be built on a 12½-acre tract some time in 1975. The 300 Americans attached to the U.S. embassy in Moscow will get a similar complex on a ten-acre plot in the center of the Soviet city...
...majority of U.S. citizens, after all, are graduates of the steerage class, and many of them can remember family tales of the crossing. Most have an intimate knowledge of the laborious ancestral climb from sweatshops to Blue Cross and double time for overtime, from the reeking streets to tract housing. They remember, they are grateful, and they have a very low threshold of tolerance when it comes to criticism of the nation that made the advance possible. For them, the criticism does not apply; they give it the lie by invoking their own past...
...Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same week, another and very fine Homer-Gallows Island (Bermuda)-also went for $65,000. And the price of every sort of "Americana" -that tract of once largely ignored painting, sculpture and craft that stretches from colonial America to the 20th century-is inexorably spiraling: it affects every type of object from embroidered samplers to John Singleton Copleys, from decoy ducks and Windsor chairs to Hudson River School landscapes, and especially for fine antique furniture...
...visited Trotsky and sometimes assisted him with secretarial work. Although the real Jacson never admitted to any motive for the murder, he is widely believed to have been a Stalinist agent. In the film, however, Losey makes a sonorous attempt to turn the murder into an oblique existential tract and the assassin into a schizoid avenging angel. Like characters in such previous and more estimable Losey films as The Servant and Accident, Jacson is a scarred and desperate man, searching a psychic void for some small sign of life. When he whispers to his police captor, hoarsely but triumphantly...
...Congress will accomplish similar and much needed congressional overhauls remains to be seen, but the first segment of the study, published last week as a $1.95 paperback titled Who Runs Congress (Bantam Books), bears a distressing resemblance in its tone and quality of research to Phillips' tirade. The tract revels in recounting every instance of bribery, influence peddling and even criminality in the congressional history books, but it is neither explicit nor persuasive in presenting its view of the problems that short-circuit congressional progress...