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Shortly after dawn last Wednesday, a Greek government police car sliced through the thick fog and stopped in front of the luxurious seaside villa of George Papadopoulos. Dictator of Greece for 6½ years and leader of the 1967 colonels' coup, Papadopoulos had been overthrown in the generals' coup last November, and three weeks ago, he was placed under house arrest by the civilian regime of Premier Constantine Caramanlis. Nonetheless, Papadopoulos had planned to run for Parliament in elections later this month, and there were rumors that his political ambitions went much further. To the policeman who knocked...
...also a section devoted to twelve of Brassai's experiments with cliche verre. These pictures are perhaps the most interesting in the exhibit because they are the least known. The cliche verre process consists basically of scratching lines on a glass plate that has been covered with a thick emulsion and then placing the plate over photographic paper and exposing it to light. The light is able to penetrate through the scratch marks, but not the emulsion and creates a print on the paper. Brassai combined the man-made images created by cliche verre with mechanically produced photographs and created...
...Saturday evening of a hard campaign week, and the candidate is tired. His expressive hands play with thick budgetary studies by the Brookings Institution that lie on the coffee table before him. Scattered at his feet are books that he has had little time for recently: Thomas Merton on Zen, Arnold Toynbee on the future, Idries Shah on Sufi parables. As the twilight fades, the soothing voice of Judy Collins drifts through the room from the hi-fi in the corner: " 'Cause she's touched your perfect body with her mind...
What all this amounts to is that Rudy Green is a fantastic football player, may be the best in the Ivies since Cornell had Ed Marinaro. And ballplayers of Green's caliber create championship teams. Yale will be in the thick of things all year long, and may well be on the verge of a title when The Game rolls around on November...
...week he had an unscheduled meeting with Mrs. Ferdinand Marcos, wife of the Philippine President. A few weeks ago, he went to the seaside resort of Peitaiho, 170 miles from the capital, to meet Togolese President Etienne Eyadéma, but most of the time he remains behind the thick walls of the old Forbidden City. Premier Chou Enlai, 76, Mao's versatile organization man, has spent most of the past two months in the hospital with what most analysts believe is a serious heart ailment. In the ruling Politburo, four of the 21 members are over 80, most...