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...your article on Phil Spector, today's pacesetter in rock 'n' roll [Feb. 19]: nearing 20, my taste in music has tended to drift away from the slam-bam, guitar-twangin', noise-styled rock 'n' roll, but I still maintain a liking for the work of Spector, who should be thanked for his efforts to raise the music of his time to artful expression...
Missed Mother. The aim of the largely Catholic, largely right-wing rebels was to halt what they considered a drift toward neutralism in South Viet Nam, and they even extolled deposed, murdered President Ngo Dinh Diem. Whatever the rebels' motives, had they succeeded, the Buddhists would have instantly taken to the streets. As it turned out, the rebels did not succeed-but who did was far from clear...
They usually move in groups of 30 to 40. Led by guides from one jungle "station" to the next, the North Vietnamese start their six-month trek down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a labyrinthine maze of many paths, which U.S. advisers prefer to call "a line of drift...
...Communists want Western goods, they are even more interested in buying the technology that capitalism produces so well. Western businessmen, in addition to turning handsome profits on the sale of plants and processes, gain entree to the East for sales of other goods. Moreover, if Eastern Europe's drift toward capitalism continues, the Communists may be willing some day to let Western businessmen invest in the East. On the upper levels of the Hungarian government, there was talk last year of inviting Conrad Hilton in to build and manage a hotel in Budapest. Though that idea fell through...
...continues to let things drift, said Lippmann, "I am inclined to think that American intervention will end, not with a bang but with a whimper. We ought to try for something better than that." Lippmann's "something better" called for nothing less than U.S. withdrawal, not only from Viet Nam. but from all of the Asian mainland. "It will be done as part of some much larger and more elaborate diplomatic proposal and action-one directed at something far bigger than South Viet Nam-at an Asian settlement from Siberia to the Himalayas, from the Mekong to the Yalu...