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Just below the dais, TIME Photographer Francisco Vera saw the fighting start...
...chaos of facts and fantasies suddenly perceives a pattern to it all, and what first appeared as the incoherent, the arbitrary and the meaningless, is transformed into the possibly intentional. So Herbert Stencil in V. chases around the world and backward in history to find what, if anything, Vera, Valletta, Vheissu and Vogelsang have in common. And Oedipa Maas, in The Crying of Lot 49, drives up and down the Californian coast exploring the remains of an underground postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more...
...VERA CLARK...
...bemused and bewildered. "Why didn't they simply imprison me at home instead of waiting to take away my citizenship while I am abroad?" he asked. He intends to appeal the decision. If he fails, the highly trained scientist expects to stay in the U.S. with his wife Vera-and to ask the Kremlin for a bill for his higher education in a gesture of solidarity with Soviet Jews, who are often required to pay exorbitant "education taxes" when allowed to emigrate (TIME, Sept...
...Died. Vera Micheles Dean, 69, international affairs scholar; in New York. After earning a doctorate at Yale, she started a 30-year career with the Foreign Policy Association, serving as its research director and editor. She was an early advocate of rapprochement with the Soviets, pleading for a benign internationalism that would stress economic rather than military aid to backward nations. Among her books: Foreign Policy Without Fear (1953), The United States and the New Nations (1964) and The U.N. Today...