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...volunteers train themselves to listen well and long. Although only two out of the present 26 student volunteers at Room 13 are psychology majors, all volunteers must enter a training program in order to work there. Each volunteer must be interviewed, undergo a week-long orientation period and participate in weekly "supervision groups" presided over by two counselors from the Bureau of Study Counsel and one from the University Health Services...
...extended term, Chief Justice Warren Burger begged off his scheduled state-of-the-Judiciary speech. Then Vice President Gerald Ford suddenly discovered that he had another commitment. They were not the only dropouts. Of the 11,000 lawyers expected, only 6,200 made it to Honolulu for the week-long annual gathering of the American Bar Association. "Nixon's resignation took the tension out of this meeting," said Lawyer Carl Nielson of Hartford, Conn. And after the tension went, the Pacific sun and balmy air apparently softened all remaining resolve. As a result, at one afternoon meeting...
...Janus Film Festival continues its week-long engagement at the Harvard Sq. Theater. The festival features two classic new wave films per day, and if there is any problem with the movies it's that they are all too good to be taken in such short order. You get a good does of great Bergman this weekend, with The Seventh Seal tonight and Wild Strawberries on Sunday. Renoir's The Rules of the Game, one of the best social-political movies ever made, is showing tonight, followed on Saturday by The Grand Illusion, Renoir's anti-war film about...
More pressing than politics, as Clerides suggested last week, was "how to move from an era of fighting to an era of peace." The vacation island was badly battered by the week-long fighting (see following story). Electricity was out in many parts of the island, water was short, and food supplies were depleted. Nicosia's airport, which was not only a mecca for airborne sun worshipers but also a transit point between Israel and the Arab countries, was so damaged that it will take at least two months to make repairs...
Miles Davis finishes up his week-long engagement at Paul's Mall on Saturday. You've no doubt heard of Davis: he's the one who invented modern jazz and travels freely through time and space. Beware of a too-short and too-expensive show...