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France's leading political observer was discussing the current national scene last night in his suite at Leverett House. Here for the fall term as a research professor in Government, Raymond Aron is best known in this country as a chronicler of the Fifth Republic, in such books as the recently translated France, Steadfast and Changing...
...country, Aron's reputation is based largely on his frequent magazine articles and on the two columns of political commentary he writes each week for the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Aron's newspaper readership is estimated at half a million. His influence among French intellectuals and statesmen is comparable to that of Walter Lippman in America...
...Aron is not giving any courses during his stay at the University. He has, however, talked before innumerable student and faculty groups, and is also busy writing a book on international relations...
...booming West Germany, growled Berlin Critic Friedrich Luft, imported plays pack 160 theaters nightly, "but [German] culture is dead." France's top political theorist, Raymond Aron, apologized because democracy has abandoned parliamentary rule in France, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer apologized for all the wrongs he said science has done, and U.S. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith seemed to be apologizing because the U.S. is building skyscrapers instead of schools. U.S. Novelist Mary McCarthy moaned: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse...
...Passed in 1958 and upheld by the state supreme court in its first test last week. Wrote Justice Aron Steuer: "Just because a man is a Negro, he is not, ipso facto, a desirable tenant. But the statute does not say that. It says the converse-because a man is a Negro he is not, ipso jacto, an undesirable tenant...