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Nevertheless, something was obviously amiss. Five weeks ago, just after a Chinese jet with nine aboard crashed mysteriously deep in Mongolia, the entire Chinese air force was abruptly grounded; with rare exceptions, it still is. The three top military chiefs, including Army Boss Huang Yung-sheng, one of the leading scourges of the radical left, have not been seen in more than a month. The most visible man in Peking these days is durable Premier Chou Enlai, the champion of the pragmatists. Last week, in a meeting with a diverse group of 70 Americans-among them Black Panther Huey Newton...
...dustup soon spread to the U.S. Office of Pipeline Safety in Washington, which dutifully sent an investigator to Collinsville. Though the agent found nothing amiss. Baker remains unconvinced. He has now challenged pipeline companies' right to burrow on private property, a move that could have national repercussions for the pipeline industry. If the local hearings go against him, Baker says he will appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. His obstinacy has not come cheap; legal costs already have reached nearly $10,000; a Supreme Court appeal could run $3,000 to $5,000 more. But Baker intends...
...consultant for President Kennedy that Kissinger got his first real taste of what infighting and influence games in the White House were really like. Not that he had ever been naive and amiss; it was simply that the struggle for power was more subtle and refined that even he had imagined. After advising Kennedy on the Berlin crisis-and asking the President to enter negotiations with the Russians and flex the possibilities of response, which Kennedy never did-Kissinger boorishly chose to criticize the President's policy in the pages of Foreign Affairs. Even as Kennedy failed to be swayed...
...important role in the slaughter by the accounts of a number of his men, though exactly what orders he issued is disputed (see The Legal Dilemmas, page 32). At the same time, the Army has ordered a top-level probe of its own initial investigation, which found nothing amiss...
...BOOKS about youth culture (and a host of other things, for that matter, like polities and social reality) can often be fairly judged by the crates they keep. When Stanley Kauffman seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards or who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know...