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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay "Why Ho Keeps Saying No" [Nov. 11] fails to explain Ho's determination to dig in. As you noted, a Communist military victory has become virtually impossible, yet Ho continues this war that each day devours more of his country's vital resources. He has another goal in mind. As his nation grows weaker, world opinion against American participation in the war becomes stronger. Now we stand almost entirely alone in Viet Nam. Ho realizes our predicament and knows that each death we cause brings us lower in global prestige. His negotiating with us would help...
Thus, with a Cummingsesque jingle, Designer-Philosopher R. Buclcminster Fuller, 70, set out to explain to the Saturday Review all that he had learned during his years since birth. The magazine had the temerity to ask Bucky to keep it down to 5,000 words-a paralyzing limitation for a man who can talk on for hours about his "dymaxion" concepts, geodesic domes, and practically everything else in the universe. Still, he managed. "I have not learned how or why the universe contrived to implode and intellectually code the myriadly unique, chromosomically orchestrated DNA-RNA, quadripartite moleculed, binary-paired, helically...
...play, and was thereby eliminated from the challenge round against Australia. The previous losses, at least, were to Mexico, Italy (twice) and Spain-all of whom have solid credentials in international tennis. Last week's defeat came in Brazil, where sportswriters spent much of the week trying to explain to their readers just what the Davis Cup is. Only 3,000 fans (700 short of capacity) turned out to watch the matches at Porto Alegre's Leopoldina Juvenil Tennis Club. And most of them-like the bewildered program director of Porto Alegre's TV station...
Traveling in Europe last week, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor used a forum of German and U.S. businessmen in Bonn to explain why. The U.S., said Connor, "is coming to recognize the existence of a second avenue of approach to the European Communist World," is moving "slowly but deliberately" toward separating trade and politics. "We would rather discuss contracts than contrasts," the Commerce Secretary said. "We do not foresee dramatic results from this effort in the near future, particularly because of the ramifications of Viet Nam. But we have hopes of building some fairly strong bridges as time goes...
...Quiet One. Several elements serve to explain Dos Passes' eclipse. A change in literary fashion left him beached with the wreckage of the realistic novel. A change in intellectual-political fashion, moreover, left his best work tainted by identification with the social-protest or even "proletarian" production of the Red Decade. This offense was compounded by the fact that his later work gave aid and comfort to the right, just as his earlier books had succored the left. The three novels that constitute District of Columbia (1952) have been unfairly dismissed as the rightist tracts of an embittered...