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After six months on the job, Colombo, who flies off this week for a five-day U.S. visit that will include a White House conference with President Nixon, has done more than merely hang on. Some Italians are already saying, perhaps prematurely, that he may be the best man in the job since the late Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's premier Premier. Others say that the ascetic, soft-spoken Christian Democrat, whom leftists call "the lay cardinal" for his piety and political skill, has accomplished a political miracle by not only surviving but actually making some progress...
Consumer Champion Ralph Nader may not seem the most likely hero for a country that is sometimes referred to as Japan, Inc. But during a five-day visit that ended last week, he proved to be just about the most popular American guest since Babe Ruth. Invited by the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, Nader was lionized wherever he went. In return he made front-page news for his hosts. He lectured to S.R.O. crowds and held a sharp televised debate with a vice president of New Japan Steel on the subject of corporate spending to control pollution. He declared that...
...another tourist mecca are already in place. For $14 a night one can get an air-conditioned room in an 80-bed motel, watch movies and go scuba diving. Already along another road to Sharm el Sheikh through the Mitla Pass, holidaymakers from Tel Aviv can take a five-day "See the Sinai Battlefields" tour for $98.60. Egged, Israels' biggest bus line, is now planning a 300-bed motel in Sinai at a cost of $500,000. "Why not?" asks an Egged spokesman. "The government has agreed to a 49-year lease, and who's going anywhere anyway...
...Carol and Ted and Alice and Jane Howard's bestseller, Please Touch, the movement is spreading explosively. Two years ago, when California's Esalen Institute first sought to export its own brand of the new gospel east, 90 curious New Yorkers showed up for a five-day encounter group in Manhattan. A similar event last year drew 850; last April, 6,000. Since January 1969, when Donald Clark counted 37 "growth centers"-established sites for the development of human or group potentials-the census has risen past...
...Harvard-Radeliffe Hillel last Spring proposed a five-day exam week to eliminate the Saturday conflict for Jewish students. Hillel also proposed and honor system in which students could take an exam the day before or after any Saturday exam conflicts...