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...true. Last December, production workers halted publication of the Evening Standard when its editor refused to remove a cartoon critical of British electrical workers who were staging a nationwide slowdown. Last year the Sunday Observer bowed to an ultimatum delivered midway in its press run and removed an anonymous letter criticizing union practices in the newspaper industry. It was, admitted Editor David Astor, "not a very courageous decision...
...middle. With some composers this might be a reasonably unnoticeable technique, but Sondheim's middles are usually entirely different from his beginnings, and they're in the middle for a reason. The songs build toward a climax and the middle section is part of that building structure. To begin midway is to throw the entire song out of balance; to eliminate sections is equally unsatisfactory...
Last week Israel finally gave its "general views" on the question to the U.S. Israel is not prepared to meet Sadat's insistence that it should pull back its troops to a line midway in the Sinai, which extends from El Arish to Sharm el Sheikh. Nor is Israel willing to talk about Suez in terms of a first step in a larger withdrawal unless it first receives guarantees of peace from the Arabs...
Since the Tigers' Ray DuBois scored first Saturday at 0:34, the Crimson didn't go ahead to stay until midway through the quarter on a play that typified Princeton's efforts that afternoon. Harvard defenseman Chris Doyle threw a long clearing pass downfield, and Princeton goalie Alex Stuart, a converted midfielder, came out of the crease to try to intercept it. He ran right by Harvard's John Hagerty and then overran the pass, which Hagerty caught...
...temerity to call China by its legal name. But the great chop forward was executed by the superb play of the Chinese table-tennis champions at world competition in Nagoya, Japan (see SPORT). Peking obviously saw no danger of humiliation in inviting the American team, which ranked about midway in the 54-nation field, to play exhibition matches in several Chinese cities, with all expenses paid by Chairman Mao's paddle-minded government. Yet it is a bit unsettling to think that a historic new Open Door policy may have been created by an expert flick of the wrist...