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Opposing the change in height zoning, a lawyer representing Lesley College pointed out that granting the change is a legislative act, not is the jurisdiction of the Board of Appeals...
Beyond that, there were no specifics. "The fact that I am here indicates, I think, what my desire is for our relationship," said Kennedy in a post-meeting press conference. "A very gracious act," said Nixon at his own separate conference. "I, of course, would have been very glad to have called upon him, and the fact that he wanted to come here, I think, is an excellent example of how our American system works." Nixon took pains to say that he and Kennedy agreed on "the proper role of an opposition party and of an opposition leader"-a remark...
...control office, a U.S. official happened to make a general observation about the difficulty of getting permission to export Chinese art objects to the U.S. The block is the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act, which forbids the importing of goods from Red China unless the dealer can prove that he got them from the mainland before 1950. But J. D. Chen boasted that he had of late been doing quite well without going to the bother of getting licenses at all: if a U.S. customer wanted one of his treasures, Chen would get a friend, a tourist or even...
Quest or Quarry? The White Stone is a sequel to Coccioli's Heaven and Earth (TIME, July 28, 1952), in which Don Ardito grew in power as a preacher while losing his capacity to love his fellow humans. That novel ended with an act of expiation in which the priest persuaded a German officer in World War II to execute him for acts committed by others. The present novel begins by reducing that sacrifice to irony. Perhaps as a symbolic agent for the humbling of Don Ardito's spiritual pride, the German officer stages a mock execution...
...play's only action takes place with the arrival in each of the two acts of Pozzo, the tyrannical overlord, and Lucky, his equally brutal slave. Lucky is an artist: in the first act he performs a grotesque dance, and, when commanded by Pozzo to think, makes his only speech, "Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman of a personal God quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the height of divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with...