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...wrote this book is perhaps a very excellent one: there is little doubt that the great philosophies of the East can ease the paramount difficulties of the West. It is only unfortunate that Mr. Koestler believed he could gain an understanding of two of the world's oldest extant cultures in the scant two years he allocated for his studies...
...England, and the role of Canada. It is inconceivable, he said, that America and Canada would link themselves in an economic community that was not a defense community. and it is also almost impossible that any nation should exploit the reservations permitted by the treaty to withdraw from extant obligations, for the cost of withdrawal would, he claimed, be greater than any possible profit...
...this week's cover story, without unduly compromising his privacy, was both hard and intriguing. Cover Artist Robert Vickrey, 35, is an old Salinger fan and hoped for a sitting-but had to be content with working from one of the few recent photographs of Salinger extant...
...significant unilateral steps toward disarmament have this type of structure. Note, however, that in such cases it is not sufficient to castigate distrustful "images": rather, it is necessary to replace them with counter-images based upon a detailed analysis of the opponent's internal structure, national aims, and extant capacities. In other words we cannot simply insist that the US give up its conception of China and the USSR as aggressors--and even Dulles did not have such a naive view of our opponents. Instead, a full, complex, and trustworthy analysis of these nations must be produced, such that...
...Harvard, Princeton and Yale, speak volumes as to normal reactions of an educated person to these communities. The happy expression at Cambridge shows his patent joy at being enfolded by the charm of the Yard. His expression at Princeton is akin to amazed horror at finding such conditions extant in the middle of the 20th century; at New Haven, one of grim determination to go through with a calculated risk...