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Rebecca West once observed that "the railroad stations are the cathedrals of America." She was referring to the architecture-and romance-of another era, and it seems unlikely that she would accord the same accolade to that waiting room of the mid-20th century, the nervous, noisy jetport. For travelers in a hurry, it is all too often a place for enforced contemplation, while airlines catch up with their weather-beaten schedules. Novelist Hailey gives airports his familiar Hotel treatment, and the result may permanently ground all his readers...
Ironically this lack of accord is felt very deeply in the McCarthy campaign, where one might least expect to find it. For McCarthy is nothing if not an intellectual, and he is certainly not a very political politician...
...problem is the Geneva accord stipulations on unanimity. The accord refers vaguely to the ICC's power of making "recommendations" by a simple majority vote--two of its three members. But "on questions concerning violations or threats of violation" of the armistice, the Commission must be unanimous. In general, the Commission has decided "procedural" matters by majority, but required unanimity on all investigatory issues...
Galbraith allows for the possibility that he might be wrong?a concession rarely made by the more dogmatic critics of the war. "Should our continued presence be necessary," he says, "the course I propose will accord us a foothold for a time and thus allow us a second look." In any event, he says in a tart aside, past policy "has been wrong so long and so alarmingly that even a modestly right one will seem superb...
...last month sent an open letter to parents of parochial-school children declaring that "after 82 years in Los Angeles, we are being asked to stop teaching." The Los Angeles chancery responded with a frontpage editorial in the archdiocesan weekly, The Tidings, insisting that the sisters, of their own accord, were threatening to leave...