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Last week, at 60, Whittaker Chambers died of a heart attack at his 300-acre farm in Westminster, Md. And even at the end, the man who had looked on life itself as a vast, compulsive conspiracy was wrapped in a cloak of secrecy not of his own devising. In an effort to preserve some semblance of privacy, his family did not announce his death until after his body was cremated...
...center's reorganization with the appointment of Chancellor Spoehr, whom Carnegie President Gardner calls "the best man for the job in Hawaii." Trained at Stanford and Chicago, Anthropologist Spoehr is famed for having enriched a remarkable center of Polynesian artifacts at the Bishop Museum. (One item: a royal cloak left by Kamehameha I that is made of extinct birds' feathers and is now valued at $1,000,000.) Spoehr is also known as a shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that the regents carry out all the Kerr-Gardner recommendations...
...This cloak-and-daggering is necessary because Peddie's committed "can't get high school guidance counselors to stick their neck out." Minnesota is state university territory, and in the close-knit communities, Peddie claims, "a counselor can't afford to stick his neck out. . . . He can't favor us over a state university, or favor one Ivy college over another. The ones who will stick their necks out for us are the old gals, who don't want to be superintendents. Young guys have to watch...
Just a few more sickeningly self-righteous cloak-and-dagger capers like the Great Cuban Invasion by our completely irresponsible CIA and we will have lost the second biggest continent's good will even faster than we lost Asia...
...rush to select a scapegoat, most newsmen nominated the Central Intelligence Agency. "America would be safer," said the Raleigh News and Observer, if CIA Chief Allen Dulles "were allowed to depart, taking his frayed cloak and blunt dagger with him into private life." Chicago's American indicted the CIA for "a gigantic goof," and even Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt suggested mildly that the CIA "was not very well informed...