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Upside-Down Reasoning. For days on end last week, "this show" got nowhere. The Communist negotiators were so obviously stalling that the U.N. suspected they had been ordered by Moscow to drag their feet while Andrei Vishinsky ran off his diversionary shenanigans in Paris (see INTERNATIONAL). Nothing so far afield was mentioned across the tables at Panmunjom, but the language was sharper and more insulting than it had ever been before. At one point, Major General Howard Turner said to Red China's Hsieh Fang...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
Across the Gulf. "What is the world scene as presented to us today? Mighty forces armed with fearful weapons are baying at one another across a gulf which neither wishes and both fear to cross, but into which they may tumble and drag each other to their common ruin. On the one side stand all the armies of Soviet Russia and their Communist satellites, agents and devotees. On the other are the Western democracies, with their far superior resources, at present only partly organized, gathering together around the U.S. Now there is no doubt on which side we stand...
...Think," Konomi urged the ministry, "how unfortunate are the citizens of Tokyo. Far away from the mountains and the "open sea, they are unblessed by fresh breezes and deprived of the benefits of green leaves. They drag their lives from day to day through the dust and dirt of the city. The Tokyo Hot Springs," said Ujitoshi Konomi, putting a name to his project, "will change all this...
This attitude suggests a return to the weakness of last year. The council ought to take up the rules for undergraduate organizations as soon as possible; otherwise it will be easy for the issue to drag on beyond the end of the present council's term, in February, and die out in another inglorious fizzle...