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...surprise move, the Senate voted yesterday to repeal the disclaimer affadavit--but not the loyalty oath--required under the National Defense Education Act. Harvard has long objected to the affadavit, and in protest withdrew from the NDEA program in November...
Last week the U.S. Justice Department withdrew its objections to MCA's plans to take over both Decca Records and Universal Pictures, a Decca subsidiary. MCA, with its Revue Productions, is already the most successful TV producer in the U.S. Now the company is going to produce feature films, becoming a sort of instant major studio-and perhaps soon the biggest...
...thought to be square. Even Davies experimented with angular nudes, but they turned out more prismatic than cubistic. Soon Davies found not only his style but also his life altered, for he grew weary of backing a movement with which he had no basic affinity. Always a mystic, he withdrew increasingly into seclusion...
Arab Socialism. Despite administrative and economic bungling, Nasser has survived a series of cliff-hanging crises, from Suez in 1956 to last year's collapse of the United Arab Republic, when Syria violently withdrew from the coalition with Egypt. Nasser was so shaken by that event that he allowed his secret police to institute a virtual reign of terror. He pulled out of this scare about four months ago, just in time to avoid a serious political reaction against him. With the help of massive economic aid from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, he has made another...
...deficit of at least $85 million, he sorrowfully turned in his resignation to the Shah. Amini at first blamed lack of U.S. aid for his downfall; he has long felt that Washington is more generous to neutralists, particularly Egypt, than to its Iranian ally. Next day Amini withdrew the accusation...