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...major financial power in Asia. Says a vice president of Manhattan's First National City Bank somewhat wistfully: "Perhaps we can now learn from the Japanese how to operate with only an economic and not a military presence." The learning process, in fact, may have already begun. Bankers detect a trend toward more U.S.-Japanese and other joint ventures and fewer solo investment efforts. In the long run, they believe that the reappraisal could lead to a healthier investing climate throughout Asia...
...challenge is a bit awesome, for unlike the other famous portrayals, Truman is close to us in time, and had by far the most public exposure. An audience would quickly detect anything spurious or stagy in the performance. The acid test has already been passed, for after seeing Whitmore at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, Margaret Truman Daniel gave him her enthusiastic endorsement. Ending a sellout three-week engagement at Ford's, the show will go on to Memphis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
Harvard's handling of community affairs over the Kennedy Memorial is probably the best recent example of botched community relations. The University, by failing to detect mounting opposition to the museum in time to negotiate with the Library Corporation to keep the archives in Cambridge while moving the museum elsewhere, may cause a situation where the archives and the planned Kennedy Institute are lost to Harvard...
...committee would find out why the current personnel failed to detect opposition right in Harvard's own back yard to the Kennedy Museum and instead threw in its chips with mayor Walter J. Sullivan and the Kennedys--about the only two interests, besides Harvard, vested enough not to see community antagonism rising...
Firm Believer. Anatomists of the Perelman corpus may detect a slight twice-breathed air here, as well as in "Nostasia in Asia," the five-part piece that concludes the collection. Some of the ground and most of the mock dudgeon are reminiscent of Westward Ha! (1948). That magnificent Middle Eastern curse, "May you live a thousand years and a trolley car grow in your stomach annually!" appeared at least once before in The Rising Gorge...