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...three-column editorial headed "The Perfidious Policy of Iran," Pravda roared that the Shah's "two-faced dealings" would earn him the same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...
Speaking at a panel discussion on city traffic and transportation problems, Brennan pointed out that present law requires the police to cite a parking violator six times before the fine can be five dollars or more...
...take the question of U. S. aid to underdeveloped countries. In the search for a generalization, Mr. Beecher has assumed some sort of a cause and effect relationship between military aid and what he is pleased to call the appearance of military dictatorships. It is enough to cite the example of Burma which was not receiving military aid to refute this. Nor is a change in the form of government peculiar to underdeveloped countries. Rather, it is in an oversimplification to think of the political situation in a country receiving aid in the terms which he has in mind...
...article--rightly, I think--sees no serious danger of what it calls "interference from above." However, it does cite a few rare "instances," the first of these involving the Theater Workshop's projected Hamlet of 1947. And Mr. Titcomb continues: "Under pressure from Professor Levin, who predicted it would be 'an artistic and financial failure,' the group gave up the project (Levin was more recently proven wrong on the first point but right on the second...
Finally, the book has two general merits which are worth special mention, especially since it is difficult to cite most the merits of a book of this kind except with an empty summary. Guerard writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope it sets an example that will be widely followed. Second, he is occasionally willing to summarize; this is an even rare and more useful quality, since it requires more courage than the average academician can muster...