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One possible poolhole is a concession by the commission that it will allow pools and small redwood "spas" to be heated "for therapeutic purposes." In the future, heated pools may have to be called natatoriums, while their owners brandish doctors' certificates attesting that they are polio victims. Other Californians...
Pasqualini notes that some Sinologists shrug off the very idea of labor camps, while others have arrived at an extreme estimate of 20 million detainees. He cites a concession often made by party propagandists that perhaps five per cent of the population is "being forced to build socialism," and notes...
Kissinger also points out to associates that the proposed SALT agreement would force the Soviets to give up several hundred high-performance nuclear weapons systems in order to get under the Vladivostok ceiling. Moreover, as a further concession to the U.S., the Soviets have offered to lower this limit by...
Died. Wendell Phillips, 54, flamboyant archaeologist-oil baron who headed the Wendell Phillips Oil Company; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. A onetime newspaper boy who studied paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, Phillips accumulated a fortune estimated at $120 million. By his own account, his rise...
Rosovsky has made a couple of suggestions about the land. His first idea was to let Pei build his pyramid after all, entirely out of glass, and then move the Afro-American Department in. But that would cost too much. Now Henry says we ought to find some way to...