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...enough that Dr. Schwarz arouses an intense desire in the American people to learn about Communism for themselves? Your question of what, specifically, Dr. Schwarz "gives" us bears little relevance to his importance. Why must he give us anything? Why not dispense with the chronic American failure to depend upon someone else to tell us what...
From Peking to Prague, Communism's chronic farm problem regularly produces a bumper crop of discontent. The outstanding exception is Poland, which last year enjoyed the best harvest in its history, doubled a projected 4% increase in gross agricultural production. Compared with 1960, the yield per acre of corn jumped from 204 bushels...
...dangerous. In Salt Lake City, where there had been an alarming rise in arrests of "nice boys" as well as chronic juvenile offenders on drunk charges, police found that the youngsters were indeed horrendously drunk, but without a trace of alcohol in their systems. Glue-sniffing parties have resulted in vicious beatings. One boy was attacked by his best friend, who came at him with a broken bottle; another challenged a quartet of marines to a fight. Dr. Alan K. Done, director of the Poison Center at Salt Lake County General Hospital, sees a further-and more serious-danger...
John Kennedy is acutely aware that he, and he alone, sits where the decisions have to be made - and there are plenty yet to be made. Berlin remains a city of chronic crisis, and Kennedy faces choices far hard er than that of sending fresh troops down the Autobahn. He has yet to get down to making the final but necessary decision to go ahead with nuclear testing in the atmosphere. Other problems lie ahead in Southeast Asia, in Congress, in NATO, in the United Nations. With full realization of what he faces, and the experience of the year behind...
Died. John Parsons O'Donnell. 65, longtime (1933-61) Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News whose hard-hitting column, "Capitol Stuff," won him fame as one of his generation's top political reporters; of chronic congestive heart failure; in Washington. An engaging Boston Irishman with limitless gusto for the mechanics of politics. O'Donnell larded his stories with strongly conservative and isolationist opinions that landed him in endless clamorous hassles (most notable: F.D.R.'s angry World War II press conference "awarding" him the Iron Cross) but never dimmed his conviction that politics...