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Complete withdrawal seemed to be in the distant future, however. Reports are that Chiang is taking advantage of the week-long respite to build up defenses on Quemoy and Matsu and stock up on ammunition, food and other supplies...
...Nationalist firing was the first since Red China had proclaimed a week-long halt in its artillery pounding of the off-shore island effective early Monday. No further clashes were reported...
Robert R. Bowie, Director of the Center for International Affairs, Henry A. Kissenger, Associate Director of the Center for International Affairs, Edward L. Katzenbach, Director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program, and Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, will represent Harvard during the week-long activities...
...more that busy students crammed a semester's work into a week-long reading period, the more these students called on the University to give them more time for independent study. Something seemed wrong about the entire situation, and the Faculty's powerful Committee on Educational Policy began an intensive study of Harvard undergraduate instruction...
Replacing the old-fashioned fiery public debate, TV's countless panels run a week-long talkathon on every conceivable subject. To Literary Critic Diana Trilling, it seems a bad trade. The trouble: TV's moderators. Wrote Critic Trilling last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "If there was once a time when the moderator was a referee between antagonists, today he is a ubiquitous avoider or smoother-over of differences. One of the most distinguished is Howard K. Smith of The Great Challenge (CBS). Let one of the discussants so much as intimate a fresh idea...