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...form of a bulky, 70-page draft, calls for dozens of dramatic changes, including a major shrinkage in the Communist Party's own powers. Several weeks in the making, the draft would give real legislative powers to the National Assembly, which has long been merely a party echo, and even permit votes of no confidence in the government. Dubček asked the Central Committee to rewrite Czechoslovakia's laws to assure everything from free speech and secret balloting to the right to emigrate and travel freely abroad. He urged a speedy return to a liberalized economy, greater...
...Senator McCarthy is serious about changing our foreign policy, I think he should look beyond the present campaign and beyond Vietnam. Kennedy will be carrying the anti-Johnson message to the country. There is no need for McCarthy to echo him. Instead, McCarthy should hammer away at the issue where Kennedy is as weak as Johnson--our foreign policy in general, as opposed to our Vietnam policy in particular. Though it is inevitable that McCarthy will bow out of the campaign eventually, his staying in at this point could be of crucial importance to our country if (and, I think...
...herself pregnant. The girl nearly dies at the hands of a drunken abortionist, then recovers and gets engaged to the boy responsible for her trouble. The night of their engagement party, he is knocked off his motorcycle by a lorry and dies in the street; a tragedy has its echo in Kendall's life when her own lover steals a car for their vacation and gets sent down for six months. "I'd much rather have taken the bus," she pleads, lending dignity to a line that, spoken by another actress, might have seemed only maudlin...
...with bedroll on back who freelanced beyond the community redoubts," was "a wild and recalcitrant wayfarer, bothersome to the settled citizen." But he was also "a unique and indigenous American product," and the settled citizen secretly envied him. Something inside every proper American, says Allsop, reponds to the haunting echo of a train whistle or a harmonica chorus of Road Tramp Blues...
...unsigned manuscript in 1924. The well-known B Major is still the strongest of the trios, and its adagio is beautifully sung by the deep bronze-voiced cello of Bernard Greenhouse, the American-born member of the international Beaux Arts Trio, whose voices blend smoothly together and also echo each other lightly and precisely...