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...cold war disengagement that Charles de Gaulle planted along his triumphal 6,200-mile march through Russia may come to flower sooner than expected. But even if not, the De Gaulle visit will have served as a useful icebreaker in the process of preparing both East and West to abandon political positions too long frozen by shibboleths of the past...
Faced with such impossible demands, the Social Democrats' Willy Brandt could only abandon the whole project and denounce Norden's performance as "a total relapse into the positions of the cold war." Brandt was still determined to pursue open East-West discussion on questions of reunification. In fact, his Social Democrats were already toying with a compromise scheme to replace the speakers' exchange: revival of an old idea to invite East German politicians to speak in a televised panel discussion on West German...
...Many students are being put up in temporary "barracks"; others are either moving unexpectedly off-campus, losing rooms promised them in the Spring, or being forced to take in an extra roommate. Harvard has an obligation to limit this confusion as much as possible. One clear way is to abandon its traditionally hostile attitude towards off-campus living--if only temporarily while the Housing shortage persists. It should not keep one House's off-campus quota down, if others go unfilled. It should make sure that students in all the Houses have some knowledge of the possibilities of living...
...Holzer, a sometime mod el, played at being Ariel in Simonet-ta's backless, almost frontless halter-top dress of pink chiffon, but stubbornly sat out all the dancing "to promote my new image," whatever that meant. Obviously there was a genuine chance that in a moment of abandon her dress might abandon her. Maybe the new Baby Jane just doesn't do that sort of thing any more. Not at the Plaza, anyway...
...Branford Trolley Museum in East Haven, Conn., got going in 1947, when New Haven decided to abandon trolleys. A handful of enthusiasts saw a chance to take over 1½ miles of the Branford line. Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition...