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...switch to American squash has forced Nayar to change his style. In India English squash balls are used. They're softer than those used here, and consequently corner shots are faster in American play. "I haven't yet learned to anticipate these corner shots," Nayar said...
...aware of his ultimate audience. He was clearly determined to impress fellow Communists as well as Americans with his toughness-in part, perhaps, to discourage and weaken U.S. resolve over Viet Nam. The toughness is genuine enough; at the same time, the Russian line is often a few shades softer than it sounds in public statements...
Czechoslovakia's Party Boss Antonín Novotný rose to the top in 1953-the year of Stalin's death-but never quite adjusted to the Kremlin's new softer line or Eastern Europe's post-Stalin era of liberalization. Only a few months ago, he severely warned the country's intellectuals that he would never tolerate "the spread of liberalism" or any other contaminating Western ideology. In turn, Czechoslovakia never really adjusted to Novotný. Recently, an increasingly vocal opposition to his hardlining ways percolated right up to the innermost circles...
...detection and more careful reporting of crimes, there is no doubt the U.S. rate is climbing or that the President puts a high priority on doing something about it, particularly in Washington. Last week, the President signed a tough District of Columbia anticrime bill, which is only some what softer than a measure he vetoed last year on constitutional grounds. At that, this year's bill will doubtless be picked over meticulously in the courts. Among other things, the bill gives Washington a stiff antiriot code. While Johnson praised this provision, he questioned two others. One is a clause...
This year Ohrbach's was especially enamored of Yves St. Laurent's No. 82, a black gabardine suit that shows the current new softer lines, with a short, gently flared skirt, and a jacket that features a clerical collar and a row of gold buttons. The model wore an accompanying stole thrown back over one shoulder, and a black velvet beret. St. Laurent charged Ohrbach's $1,800-perhaps twice what a single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach...