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...LIMITS OF FOREIGN POLICY, by Charles Burton Marshall (Holt; $3), maintains that there cannot be much initiative in foreign policy: it is "necessarily in large part a response to situations . . . beyond our Government's control." Americans, says Marshall, are too fascinated with Davy Crockett's formula, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." For the purposes of world politics, he writes, the best that can be expected is some such paraphrase as: "Be as sure as you reasonably can of the rightness of your premises. Take care as best you can to see that the conclusions...
...hopes this month to expand children's TV horizons with Disneyland, a series of 26 hour-long programs ranging from science to Indian Fighter Davy Crockett. The only other new development may come from NBC, which is considering a series on the underwater adventures of skin divers. Flamingo Films, a TV producer, thinks it may have found the answer to expensive animated cartoons: last week Flamingo signed a contract with Television Corp. of Japan. U.S. writers will forward their plots to Tokyo, where they will be animated and filmed by Japanese artisans (whose pay is lower) and then returned...
Overdue. In Toledo, the public library got back a copy of David Crockett: His Life and Adventures borrowed in 1882, decided that the best thing to do was just forget about the fine...
Died. John C. Crockett, 88, trumpet-voiced reading clerk of the U.S. Senate for 40 years (until he retired in 1947); in Washington, D.C. Onetime Iowa farm boy and stock-company actor, big, rawboned "Uncle John" was said to be able to read faster than any man in decades of Senate history. Knowing when to skip or when to pause during controversial parts of a bill so that a Senator could break in, Crockett could riffle through bills at the rate of 60 pages in 20 minutes (his record: 300 bills in less than two hours). To keep his voice...
Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...