International Amity

Dartmouth Conference IX, sponsored by the Kettering Foundation and named for the site of the first in the series, brought together in Moscow early this summer a group of influential private citizens from the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. to explore ways to smooth relations between the two super powers.

Initiated at the suggestion of President Eisenhower, the series started in 1960 in Hanover, deliberately chosen as a location where the conferees could engage in unofficial, off-the-record discussion away from urban distractions and unwelcome media attention. In the intervening years, similar meetings held from time-to time in this country or the Soviet Union have led indirectly to the reduction of tensions in significant areas. The next most recent of the series took place in Hanover.

Key issues at the 1975 sessions were the breakdown in trade agreements, the Middle East situation, and the need for fresh approaches to the arms race, all in the light of fluctuations in detente.

We heard it for Bishop Fenwick Highwhen a well-rounded dozen lasses fromPeabody, Mass., posed in triumphantpyramid with their cheerleading awards.