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...first casualty of the new chill was that enduring symbol of detente, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. During the past three Administrations, Dobrynin has been allowed to slip into the State Department building through its underground garage, thus keeping his visits private. But last week the Ambassador was informed that henceforth he must enter via the front door like all the other envoys. When his limousine nevertheless approached the garage as usual, it was turned back, a rebuff that seemed to underscore the verbal bellicosity...
...since Cromwell's Roundheads defaced the statues and shattered the stained glass," an editorial in the London Daily Mail thundered last week. What was enraging the editors? It turned out to be the publication of the Church of England's new Alternative Service Book. The book will henceforth be used in liturgy as a modernized alternative to the version of the Book of Common Prayer issued in the 17th century, just after the Roundheads lost power...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration announced that it is taking steps to help prevent abuse of the popular pills. Henceforth, all the tranquilizer makers will have to include this caveat in their advertising of such products in medical publications and other informational materials: "Anxiety or tension associated with the stress of everyday life usually does not require treatment with an [antianxiety] drug...
After three days of airlifts and the evacuation of 678 exiles to San José, Castro abruptly ordered the Costa Rican flights suspended. Henceforth, Cuban authorities insisted, all refugees had to go directly to the countries where they planned to settle. Castro reportedly was annoyed that Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo himself welcomed the first planeload of refugees. More important, Castro was furious about the bad publicity Cuba was reaping in the Latin American press. To counter it, he staged a massive rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. More than a million Cubans marched through...
...trying." Harvard (A.B. 1915, M.A. 1916) all but undid this model boy. His discovery of the decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra Pound, he also fell in with free verse and the imagist movement. Poetry henceforth was to be simple, sensuous and direct, images fresh, startling and spare. Cummings proved an apt poetic experimenter, though some of his finest verse, eventually, was traditional...