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...talks last week was retired General Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal emissary, whose fulltime task in Berlin was over. Clay's seven months in the free city as the on-the-spot symbol of U.S. support had not passed entirely smoothly. His suggestions for tough dis plays of U.S. strength in Berlin were often pigeonholed in favor of more cautious advice from the State Department; his direct line to the White House some times upset the military and diplomatic chain of command, to the obvious anger of U.S. officers in Europe. In the current calm...
Suddenly Indonesia's delegate rose and left for home. It was just part of the dis rupting strategy of Indonesia's President Sukarno, whose military patrols soon be gan prowling New Guinea's coastline again. As for calling off the threat of in vasion, Sukarno chuckled, "Truly, I do not want to stop it, for it is a rolling snowball that will run down everything...
...English loathe some de Gaulle-Adenauer policies," Hoffman emphasized, "but they must weigh the political dis-advantages with the economic advantages in deciding whether or not to join...
...Orchestra last week on a U.S. tour that opened with a triumphant appearance in New York, he swiveled around in moments of inaction and regarded the orchestra's string section with an intensity so fierce that it seemed ready to wither the first violinists. But Barenboim's dis concerting mannerisms are only the mark of an extra-attentive and highly sensitive musician who believes that each perform ance is "an experience to be lived. I listen because their part is just as important," he says. ''I never think of piano playing -only of making music." Barenboim...
What makes the question of local control a current subject of U.S. debate is a growing gap between the have and have-not schools, widened by the financial dis parity between school systems and com pounded by a national shortage of skilled manpower. To some critics, the situation cries out for a "national curriculum" to equalize schools. Loud among them is Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who calls local control "the greatest obstacle to school reform." Says Rickover in a tendentiously titled new book, Swiss Schools and Ours: Why Theirs Are Better (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95): "I know of no country...