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...basic purpose of Hua's visit was to reiterate China's desire to open up to the West. The Chairman also expressed his support for both the European Community and NATO in the common struggle against "hegemonism," Peking's code word for Moscow's expansionist ambitions. In a long-winded toast delivered at Giscard's welcoming dinner, Hua reeled off a list of Soviet sins, without once mentioning China's Communist archrival by name. He declared: "In Europe a serious state of military confrontation continues. In the Middle East, in Africa...
Without hearing a word of what is being said or shouted, any experienced trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange can listen to the hum of voices around him and tell what is happening. An up market has a different pitch from a down market. But old Wall Street hands vividly remember an exception to that rule. One day 50 years ago next week, recalls David Granger, 76, a senior partner at Granger & Co., a Wall Street brokerage house, "there was a hush over the floor that I've never heard since. It was funereal." Indeed...
...November Cosmopolitan brims with the customary hints for foraging single gals ("If you have invited someone to your home for sex ... it only takes a few minutes to change the sheets"). But it also carries some closely reasoned political advice: a 3,700-word article by Columbia Law School Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg urging passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. To give the ERA cause a boost, Cosmo and 32 other women's magazines from Ms. to Playgirl, from Vogue to House & Garden agreed to run pieces about the amendment in their next month's issue...
...matter how you choose to define "successful," the word applies to the Harvard women's soccer team, which raised its season record to a pristine 10-0 by condemning Princeton, 4-0, Saturday at Soldiers Field...
Responding to Saturday's article entitled "Black Harvard Woman is Injured, Says White Demonstrator Attacked Her," I must say that as the unfortunate victim I am offended by his headline. The use of the word "says" is an insult to my credibility, and evokes a sense of doubt as to whether or not the incident was racially motivated. In addition, the tone of the article does not convey the emotional trauma experienced, only the physical damage. A strict presentation of facts does not allow a reader to understand how it feels to have one's rights violated for reasons that...