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Despite its "new opening" toward the U.S., the Peking government has allowed only a handful of correspondents from American newspapers and magazines into Red China. By far the finest account so far of life in the land of Mao appears in the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly; the author is Australian Ross Terrill, 33, a contributing editor of the magazine. Harvard's John K. Fairbank, the dean of American Sinologists, calls Terrill's 15,000-word article "the best piece of reporting from China since the late '40s." Other China watchers heartily concur...
...teens and twenties to increase Harvard's concern and expenditure for drama. Baker wanted to expand his workshop in play writing and dramatic technique into a comprehensive drama school: Harvard would not have him, so he went to Yale where he inaugurated what is now considered the finest drama school in the country...
...tripped up when he accepted $300 to let off a man whom he had arrested on a narcotics charge. The man was wired by the Knapp Commission. Before the hearings end this week, the commission promises to supply still more proof of wholesale corruption among New York's finest. Well-publicized probes of dishonesty in the police department have taken place off and on at least since Teddy Roosevelt was New York's police commissioner late in the last century. Unhappily, these probes never seem to have a lasting effect on the corrupted-or on the corrupters...
True Amalgam. An evening at City Opera does not alway glitter with great singing stars, although in Bass Norman Treigland and Soprano Sills the company possesses two of the finest voices in the world. But Rudel's shows are rarely dull. Because he believes that "open should be a true amalgam of the visual and musical," he was steering City Opera toward total theater long before the term became fashionable. He hired such experienced directors as Frank Corsaro and Tito Capobianco, and gave then free dramatic rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became...
UNDER J. Edgar Hoover's dictatorial, 47-year rule, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has in the past been widely regarded as one of the finest law-enforcement agencies in the world. Yet now the 76-year-old director's fiefdom shows evidence of crumbling, largely because of his own mistakes. The FBI's spirit is sapped, its morale low, its initiative stifled. For the first time, there are doubts within the bureau and within the Administration about the FBI's ability to serve as an effective agency against subversion. An experienced former CIA agent, until...