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First hints of the new line went out to Moscow via the shrewd, cautious U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Llewellyn E. Thompson. Donning his karakul hat, Thompson paid a call on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. His task was once again to probeMoscow's intentions. After 2-½ hours of cautious verbal fencing, Gromyko still wanted to talk only about getting Western troops out of Berlin, offered no hint whatsoever of any Russian concessions. "It was agreed that the discussions will be continued," Thompson announced carefully...
EACH opening night during the opera season, Milan's Via Manzoni is transformed from a bustling commercial street to a river of wealth and elegance. Bumper to bumper, a seemingly endless line of Mercedes, Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Maseratis inches toward the Piazza della Scala, their high-powered engines being raced by traffic-frustrated drivers. Pulling up before La Scala's neoclassic facade, the cars discharge their cargoes-usually an Italian businessman, resplendent in white tie, and his bejeweled wife, dressed in a Fontana, Capucci or Dior...
...with the lame explanation that the right to restrict Irish immigration would be used only if "absolutely necessary.'' The government's aim is to keep out what one critic of the bill called ''black Irish" immigrants: West Indians who try to enter the country via Ireland. Defending the bill, Home Secretary "Rab" Butler stumbled through an inept speech...
...Russia each month comes a trickle of contraband manuscripts. Usually handwritten in loose-leaf notebooks by pseudonymous authors, the books are smuggled to Western publishers via an intellectual underground. Last week two of these recently published volumes. Abram Tertz's On Socialist Realism and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's The Leaf of Spring, gave Western readers a look at Russian intellectuals' bitter disenchantment...
Anti-Planner Jacobs is capitalizing on common dissatisfactions via malicious attacks. Professional planners, who are thoroughly trained in the social and behavioral sciences, share her concern. Most of Jacobs' slanted facts are correct, but her whipping boy-should be the quacks, who parade as public or private planners because they have funds to invest or can bend over a drawing board...