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AS THE 23RP GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONVENES The Stakes at the UN By Richard C. Hottelet United Nations The tragedy of Czechoslovakia hangs over the United Nations and may come to dominate the 23rd...
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The Winter in Politics THE LATE YEARS, 1945-1962: VOLUME III OF THE DIARIES AND LETTERS OF HAROLD NICHOLSON Edited by Nigel Nicolson Atheneum. 448 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by DAVID...
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ON SCREEN By John Simon Coming of Age One of the prerequisites for a well-made film is texture: a certain density in the relations among the characters, a certain solidity of the setting, a...
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ON MUSIC By John Goodman An Urbanized Thoreau Music critics react oddly to political conventions—as do other people. In the midst of the recent Democratic agon, I thought of Charles Ives. After...
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ON TELEVISION By Marvin Kitman Beauty and the Beasts Forty-nine candidates were defeated in the Miss America race at Convention Hall in Atlantic City this year for reasons that were never made...
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DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. SANDOZ Robert Sandoz notes, in his "Facing the Choice" (NL, September 9)...
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Vol. 051 Issue 017 (September 9 1968)
The Stakes at the UN
