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...respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm your story and tell you of their frustration and the hopelessness of present policies...
Mark Twain once remarked that he especially enjoyed meeting in books men whom he had "already met on the river." Portrait painting, at its best, gives that kind of enjoyment also. The insights into character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last...
While the President repeatedly denies, moreover, that political affiliation is a factor in determining his Administration's appointments, he does little in practice to confirm this position. Last year, he allowed Meade Alcorn to blackball Henry Labouisse--the State Department's choice for deputy director of the International Cooperation Agency--on the ground that Labouisse registered as a Democrat in 1940. Again this month, when the Department recommended Labouisse for the directorship he was passed over in favor of James Riddleberger, happily a qualified diplomat but in addition apparently politically sound...
...informal end came long ago. At least 15% of current Hollywood films are reportedly written by blacklist members. Says Producer King: "There are more ghosts in Hollywood than in Forest Lawn. Every company in town has used the work of blacklisted people. We're just the first to confirm what everybody knows." Writer Trumbo himself has sold "many screenplays" under nine pseudonyms. Since 1947 Trumbo's income, slashed 90% in the first eight years, has actually risen above his pre-blacklist level...
...speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...