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...mouths of a dozen Administration leaders might prove an effective secret weapon," he has written. But while he believes that recent U.S. foreign policy has been based on "reasonable logic," he also feels that it has often been clumsily executed. "The content of great power policy must sometimes be blunt," he says. "Its style should always be burnished...
...less power than expected, the capsule still blazed into the atmosphere at nearly 19,000 m.p.h. and a temperature of 4,000°, fastest and hottest yet for any returning spacecraft. To protect the capsule, a new cone-shaped heat shield completely enveloped Apollo instead of guarding only the blunt end. It came through as expected, seared but intact. And three huge parachutes gently dropped Apollo into the Atlantic about 40 miles from its target ship, the U.S.S. Boxer...
Until last Sunday, M.I.T. maintained strict silence about the possibility that the proposed Inner Belt Highway might intrude upon the fringe of the Institute's campus. But there was plenty of speculation. "Oh, I'd guess they're disturbed," said the cautious. "Let's face it," said the more blunt, "they'll pull every string they can, including LBJ, to keep the Inner Belt...
...Fronts. In Washington, where Johnson's peace offensive helped to blunt the urgent demands of the war, the Administration's present attitude is known as "the new realism." It has crystallized as a blend of idealism and self-interest based on the acknowledgment that the military war cannot be won in a vacuum, that it will only be successful to the extent that it helps liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will...
...blunt and candid American whose size and manner might suggest a foot ball coach last week won election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...