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...They" were the Russians, and all the fuss was about the nine-day state visit of Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin. To reciprocate the warmth of his reception in Moscow last June, De Gaulle seemingly left nothing undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin...
...civil-disobedience man." Founded in 1964 by former Commissioner Howard Leary, who now heads New York City's police, the Philadelphia civil-disobedience squad consists of only 24 members: a lieutenant, a sergeant, four policewomen and 18 elite policemen, half of them white and half Negro. Picked for warmth, patience and maturity (average age: 38), C.D. men are schooled in sociology and human relations; they study civil rights under University of Pennsylvania law professors. However small in numbers, the squad is worth a division of oldtime head bashers...
...instrumentalists were equally outstanding. The string section was rich and sparkling, with the violins producing elegant duet passages in the Magnificat. The strings contribute warmth, but most of the color came from the wind section, a combination of two oboes, English horn, bassoon, and trombone. Lisa Crawford's organ part was solid, even though her choice of registrations in the hymn made the accompaniment too prominent...
...floor are still unfurnished and unattractive. Chapman, Hamlin and Seltzer have reasonably comfortable office space, and the HDC office certainly has a lived-in look. But by and large the Loeb is immaculate and bare--or, as its detractors would put it, "cold and forbidding." Alongside this lack of warmth, directors complain about the proliferation of Loeb bureaucracy, which imposes all sorts of additional limitations...
...warmth of your reporting was well bestowed on a man whose personal history we otherwise would not know, even though we have always sensed that there was something special about...