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Amid bombast and ill-will, all the more venomous now that Republicans have their mandate, one of the nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...
...talk about myself, I go all shy and change the subject.' But once, in a moment of exuberance, he cried : 'I have no secrets from you, Massa Baker!' And in a letter he wrote after I left, he said : 'You came to Innsbruck to extract by pickax a few timid and grudging facts from a fretful hermit, and what you got was Niagara from the Ancient Mariner.' He exhorted me to become a headmaster some day - which, coming from a teacher like himself, I took to be a compliment. He remembered Barton warmly...
...good omen in Mayer's achievement was the breaking down of the blank and sterile opposition of the Gaullists to all participation in government. But there were still no Gaullists in the cabinet. By threatening to withdraw their voting support at any time they plainly hoped to extract further concessions from Mayer. Looking over the new government, a Frenchman cracked: "It is Pinay without Pinay and De Gaulle without De Gaulle...
...plans call for 1) damming of the Volta river to provide a continuous 560,000 kilowatts, 2) building smelters to extract an annual 120,000 long tons of aluminum from local bauxite, 3) building a new harbor at Tema, 20 miles east of Accra. A government commission will work out an agreement between the British and Gold Coast governments, and British and Canadian aluminum companies; after that, the British will put up $121 million. The aluminum will replace about one-third of British purchases from dollar areas...
...make the planets sound attractive, scientists consider earth's neighborhood rather slummy. But the space planners are optimistic. Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...