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BERLIN. In West Berlin the ambassadors of the Big Four (Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the U.S.) made new progress toward an agreement on the status of West Berlin, which is isolated 110 miles inside Communist East Germany. Sixteen months after the talks began, the Russians have recently been cooperative enough that some Western diplomats are talking boldly of a "three-three-three" timetable: three more months for the ambassadors to draw up the basic framework of the settlement, emphasizing free access between West Berlin and West Germany; three months for the West and East Germans to work...
...September for a year, excited to be back on campus back among the young and the learned in a world of long and leisurely conversation where the beauty of truth is perceived and the love of truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth reigns. At last, after sixteen years in Washington. I would get away from practical, pragmatic, administrative minds and talk and think of other things. Life, after all, is not bounded by government and the issues of public policy and administration that we talk about at Brookings. Is not Washington the least and Cambridge the most...
...Sixteen months ago, a small band of Indians occupied the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The act was meant to focus attention on the central tragedy of Indian history, the usurpation of their lands, and for a time it did just that. Then public attention began to dwindle-and so did the number of Indian squatters. TIME Correspondent William Mormon visited the remnant. His report...
When I was lounging around training school, impatient but apprehensive, I agonized over my ability to behave like a policeman, in the sense and to the degree that all policemen must behave like policemen. But the first time I was put out on the street by myself-for sixteen hours of traffic direction the day of the Kent State-Cambodia demonstration last spring. I found that the uniform did half my work or me. People look at you, think you're a policeman, and you are. On the day of that relatively benign assembly. I was one of scores...
...works for soprano performed by Pene lope Jense. Mrs. Jensen, a graduate of the Ed School, has not sung in this kar with the unmistakable Frenchness area since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since then, she has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra under Sixteen Ehrling and the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw; Saturday she performs the Bach "Wedding Cantata" and the rarely performed Quatre Poems Hindous of Maurice Delage. Writtenon the composer's Indian trip, this latter piece combines the best of Ravi Shanof Ravel, who was Delage's teacher...