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ASIDE from its symbolic location in mid-Pacific, the tiny atoll of Midway has little to recommend it as a meeting place for heads of state. At this time of year, the heat and humidity are almost unbearable. Overfriendly gooney birds create a hazard by flocking to greet incoming aircraft. Limited facilities bar a prolonged palaver-unless the visitors are willing to bunk down in a spartan Navy barracks...
Originally, South Viet Nam's President Thieu requested a session with President Nixon in Washington. Secretary of State William Rogers, on a visit to Saigon, suggested a rendezvous halfway. The danger of antiwar demonstrations, at least, should be absent at the U.S.-owned garrison isle of Midway. Regardless of the setting, the Midway meeting-designed to align U.S. and South Vietnamese positions for the peace negotiations-may well be more important than any of the five previous summits that have punctuated...
...devoted to literary instruction. It has many sideshows but only one magician. The general public, which chose to read Lolita as a prurient tale of pedophilia, enters through the main gate, hoping to meet the creator of that doomed and delectable child. A more sophisticated clientele moves beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes. Prolonged exposure to Nabokov reveals much more. What he calls his "ever-ever" land of artifice opens on intriguing distances. There words transform the world into...
...moving symbol of this crisis is the trumpet's high A in the unfinished Mahler Tenth Symphony (1910), piercing through a savage discord. The orchestra is poised midway between the old and new. Mehler, a genius of almost supernatural penetration, had asked earlier...
...Midway through the second period, Kilkowski picked up the rebound of a shot by Regan and fed it back to Regan, who threw in a high shot from about 10 feet out for his first goal of the day. Harvard kept up the pressure and built an 11-4 lead before Crimson coach Bruce Munro started clearing the bench...