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...constitution within four months, the British government will impose one of its own making. If a new constitution has to be imposed and the Ulster political parties refuse to operate under it, said a Whitehall insider last week, "we would be faced with a situation of the utmost gravity in which our total withdrawal from Northern Ireland cannot be ruled out." The government has a detailed timetable worked out. The Cabinet is determined that one way or another there will be a new constitution ready before next March, when the special powers that Westminster assumed over the province will...
...clear relationship with nature and with his society. No matter how sumptuous or even exclusive they may be, the masterpieces of traditional Japan stake their existence on this perfect clarity of image and technique. Such is the lesson of two fall exhibitions of Japanese art, seen at its utmost pitch of refinement. One is a selection of 235 works of the Rimpa school-scrolls, screens and lacquer-at the Tokyo National Museum, the other a show of inros, netsukes and sword guards from the Charles A. Greenfield collection at Manhattan's Japan House...
...hold a position of strength sufficient to cause astute political observers--including James Reston, the foremost observer--to devote thought to the prospect that the Republican Party could become the dominant, if not majority, party after November. The Republicans sought to seize the moment and exploit it to the utmost. Somehow, though their efforts came across only as exploitation. They lacked the genuine touch which permeated Miami Beach during the Democratic Convention. And whether they really do seek progress or not--a question left unsettled by their Convention behavior--the Republicans have backed into a campaign which will...
Richard C. Gerstenberg, LL.D., board chairman and chief executive of General Motors Corp. Proof in his own time that opportunities in the American economic system are unlimited for the person with ability, integrity and a willingness to use his talents to the utmost. George F. Kennan, LL.D., diplomat...
...Sympathy. Each batch of men freed will be guarantors for the next, and if violence tapers off, releases will be accelerated. "I must stress with the utmost force," he declared, "the basic simple principle that the sooner violence ends the sooner internment can be ended"-though he intends also to keep the power to intern others if necessary...