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This much is fairly easy to grasp in Aiken's "autobiographical narrative'' Ushant; thereafter, the going gets harder. For much of Ushant is cryptic self-psychoanalysis, and is to be fully understood, perhaps, only by Aiken himself. Yet Ushant is no more difficult than the earlier chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses, and one of the fall's favorite games in U.S. highbrow circles will be trying to untangle...
...judge, about a month after Defense Secretary James Forrestal jumped to his death from a hospital window. Somehow the Communists learned that Medina had a fear of high places and capitalized on this weakness. They plagued him with pickets carrying placards reading "Medina will fall like Forrestal," and cryptic letters and anonymous phone calls repeating again & again the word jump. Said Medina: "It got so I just didn't dare go near a window. You laugh now. You think it's funny, but by golly, it nearly worked...
...Cryptic rumbles from the stove-heated conference tent at Panmunjom had U.N. correspondents baffled-and, for that matter, just about everybody else. As far as the newsmen could make out from the word given by the briefing officer, the U.N. subcommitteemen and their Communist opposite numbers had almost agreed on item 2 of the agenda, the ceasefire line.* There only remained to be settled, it seemed, the relatively minor question of who, if anybody, would hold Kaesong. What, then, was aU the scuffling about in the conference tent? At week's end Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, chief...
...diaries give no reason for his suicide. But the sum total of the cryptic entries, the reflections, the worries and the responsibilities, add up to a strong case that James Forrestal was a casualty in a desperate battle to save the American people from complacency...
...little man in U.S. aviation. As president and controlling stockholder of Colonial, he pushed it up from a pipsqueak line to a sizable airline flying 68 million passenger-miles a year over 3,182 miles of scheduled air lanes. Last week Colonial Airlines, with no explanation, issued a cryptic announcement: Sig Janas was out, and a new president, Alfons Landa, was running the line with the help of a new executive committee. No airman, 53-year-old Landa is a Washington lawyer, who is a director of the American Institute of Management and had done some legal work...