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...turns out, they are worried about a new threat: the advent of satellite-transmitted television broadcasting. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko called for an international treaty to prohibit such broadcasting from one nation to another-except by mutual consent-as "interference in the internal affairs of other states...
...advent of a co-educational Yard has caused a change in the selection process of next year's proctors. All of the new male proctors for next year will be Harvard graduates...
...ADVENT of neo-fascism in Greece affected all aspects of life of the nation. All the political parties were banned. Labor unions and student organizations were dissolved. Seven major Athens dailies ceased publication. The rest were obliged to abide by strict censorship regulations. Anti-regime journalists were persecuted and many were forced into exile. Intellectual activity was stifled. Almost all of the progressive intellectuals active before the coup were forced to emigrate. Key sectors of the economy were captured by foreign, mainly U.S. monopolies (American investment accounts for more than 50 per cent of foreign investment in Greece). Domestic enterprises...
...event as the two-page, seven-picture spread on the presidential visit in Peking's People's Daily, described by resident correspondents as "unprecedented," proved an enigma. The Washington Post's Stanley Karnow thought the display was "calculated to communicate to the Chinese population the advent of a new era in Sino-American relations." But A.P. Correspondent Frank Cormier cautioned that it might be aimed mainly at irritating the Russians...
Slipping on the special Polaroid glasses for this revival is an instant time trip. Back you go to the advent of 3-D in the early '50s, when Bwana Devil had a lion jumping out from the screen and It Came from Outer Space landed a meteor right in your lap. House of Wax, which combined the pop-out tricks with the grue of the traditional horror movie, seemed the best of them...