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...message came from Sir Humphrey Gibbs, who for five months has lived in virtual isolation as the British Governor of rebel Rhodesia. It was directed to Harold Wilson, and its contents were secret, but it sent Wilson's personal envoy Oliver Wright flying into Salisbury for talks with Prime Minister Ian Smith. What were the talks all about? "To see whether a basis for negotiations genuinely exists" was all that Wilson would tell the British Parliament last week, and Smith was equally evasive. "We are always prepared to take part in constructive discussions with anybody," he announced in Salisbury...
...very painful," Callas insisted after she signed the necessary papers, even though "the Americans never really considered me an American." But then she admitted: "Freedom is so nice." It is indeed. It means virtual divorce from U.S. income taxes as well as from Meneghini. As an American citizen living abroad, Callas had to pay on all her earnings over $25,000, a considerable amount. As a Greek, she has to pay U.S. taxes only on what she earns...
...most distant objects ever observed (TIME cover, March 11). But challengers remain, and they have by no means given up. Schmidt's colleague, Halton Arp of the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, for example, believes that quasars were ejected from odd-looking galaxies that are, by cosmological standards, virtual neighbors to the earth...
...Union message that he would again seek the funds. The $12 million allocation, then, is hardly encouraging, since it will not enable the low-income housing project to proceed on any reasonable basis, and since it once again constitutes a rebuff to Johnson. In its meager appropriation and its virtual prohibition of supplements to suburban areas, the House subcommittee could very well bring the program...
...Master John Finley wandering from table to table in the dining room mentioning those all-too-familiar figures of antiquity. Its name produces visions of nattily-dressed preppies scampering from a Master's tea to the Club, and of House jocks and future Rhodes scholars energetically supporting a virtual madhouse of intramural activities...