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...range" of subjects. The next day came the coup of the trip for a presidential candidate seeking to strengthen his foreign policy credentials: a 3-hr. 45-min. interview on "bilateral interests" with Aleksei Kosygin. It was the longest discussion that the Soviet Premier has held with an American visitor since coming to power. Once again came word that the talks had been "cordial." Muskie would not elaborate beyond that stock description, insisting that he needed "time to digest." After all, he said, "I am known as a cautious sort of fellow...
...popularity among the lower classes by cutting some food prices, invoking price controls and launching an attack on black-market operators. He has declared a truce with a hostile middle class by revoking the laws that Nasser instituted a decade ago to seize their property. He told a visitor last week that he intends to release some 600 political prisoners. Streets in Cairo are being repaired and swept for a change, new street lights are being installed, and sandbags protecting the Nile bridges are being replaced by shrubbery...
...same time, a White House aide was predicting an altered posture that could lead to conciliation with the Democratically controlled Congress: more Democrats in the Administration, an end to harsh personal political attacks, and a push for domestic-reform legislation. One White House visitor, the National Urban League's Whitney Young, emerged from more than an hour's talk with Nixon to announce that the President appeared ready to make a "new beginning" on race problems...
...longer with us." Most of Young's colleagues nod only cautious assent. Student distrust of the Nixon-Agnew Administration remains high. The youth counterculture flourishes. Another Cambodian invasion or a heating up of the war in Viet Nam could touch off large-scale turmoil. Yet even the casual visitor finds a new climate on U.S. campuses this fall-a new mood of detachment that may well signal the end of large-scale student activism...
Part of Cushing's ability to sell a cause was surely his own quiet example of personal austerity: he joked about his official residence being "the biggest joint on Commonwealth Avenue," but his personal life within it was simple and frugal. Once he amazed a visitor by proudly showing off a $3 pair of black loafers he had picked up at Filene's basement. Part of his effectiveness, too, was Cushing's broad, transparent humanity, which seemed to embrace not only every faith but even, on occasion, rather conflicting ideologies. "He had a good word...