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...delegation, "and I think we achieved them." The principal achievement was to avert a schism between the hard-lining nations on Asia's mainland, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam ("The ones in sight of the gallows," as one U.S. aide puts it), and the safer, softer-lining insular nations, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
...merchant. After she married Sikkim's King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the former Hope Cooke winced at the garish mats that some of the Sikkimese weavers were making with aniline dyes, decided that they must go back to traditional vegetable dyes to give their ancient dragon patterns a softer tint. The King had helped to establish a handicrafts training center in his tiny Himalayan kingdom, and flew to New York with his queen in time to watch the first shipment of rugs go on sale (prices: up to $500). But Sikkim's weavers are still constantly taking time...
...into a thousand pieces if it is to survive in the eternal." She bought a piano that had been built in Mozart's time, played it repeatedly to test its limitations, concluded that because of its fragile construction the composer expected his music to be played with a softer touch than is customary among modern pianists. Says she: "I eat, I talk, I clean my teeth, but always in the back of my head I can hear the music going on. This concert series is a life-consuming event, but also a life-crowning...
Many clerics, unshaken in their belief that racial justice is a spiritual as well as a social problem, have taken a new and softer tack. In the face of congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned...
Klein indicated that the purges represent the beginning of a "naked power struggle." Two high Communist officials deposed this month both took strong stands against the Soviet Union and the United States, but there is no indication that the purges have been accompanied by a softer line towards the West...