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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet...
...than ever as a result of Sino-Soviet rivalry. Though the Cominform (successor to the Comintern) was dissolved in 1956, control over the worldwide Communist movement is still vested in special departments of the Soviet and Chinese Central Committees. Of the world's 105 Communist Parties, Moscow can count on 72, as against 21 for Peking. Twelve other Communist Parties-mostly in Western Europe-are vaguely independent. In 1964, foreign aid by Communist countries amounted to $1.7 billion, of which Soviet funds accounted for half, Eastern European funds for a quarter. Of 17,530 Communist technicians working in foreign...
Throughout the week, Johnson fired question after question-by actual count, more than 100 during a single two-hour period-at his advisers. He asked military men to comment on political questions and political advisers to comment on military matters. He was especially interested in finding out from McNamara about the Viet Cong guerrillas. What are they like? How is their morale? What kind of intelligence information is the U.S. getting from prisoners? Many times the President referred to maps and photographs showing damage both inflicted by and suffered by U.S. forces. The matter of casualties came up time...
...fight against Communism-but it is naive to assume that a nation like the U.S. can launch a sizable military operation and not be found out. It is useful to appeal to dissidents inside Communist countries-but given the known nature of Communist regimes, it is foolhardy to count on uprisings. It is right to make use of militant anti-Communists wherever they are-but it is impossible for the U.S. to achieve a major policy objective in a war by proxy. It is fine to use unorthodox and imaginative methods-but wrong to place essentially military decisions...
...diet, only half the loss was fat; the rest was muscle and fluid (often temporary). One conclusion, noted Dr. Greenberg, is that figures on a scale often deceive a dieter: "People on diets can't tell how much loss is fat." An other conclusion is that calories do count-along with will power...