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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though pestilence, famine, war and earthquake rank almost as high. Last year Tripp and his three-man staff (working from a minuscule suite near the White House) funneled $41.5 million worth of supplies and services to 39 countries-at a rate of nearly one disaster per week. Duplication is frequent, since some poor countries seem to be "disaster prone": last year, for example, India suffered both drought and smallpox, Nicaragua fire and famine...
...grammar is easy enough but the tonal business is frustrating. One word may have two, three, or even four completely different meanings depending upon the pitch and stress you use. There is a well-known and true story of Robert McNamara's difficulty with the language on his frequent visits to Saigon. He likes to make a small pleasantry to his Vietnamese audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately his aides never told him that the printed words for the phrase have to be pronounced quite precisely to convey the message. And every time Mac would wave his arms...
...Nichols and his two writers can't handle the ambitious and complicated issues they raise, and sideswipe their own construct at the halfway mark. The Graduate rapidly degenerates into frenetic melodramatics, ending in the all-too-frequent last minute chase, a triumph of love-over-everything guaranteed to warm even the hearts of a Brattle Theatre audience during the Bogart festival. Safe in the back of a bus from the irate witnesses to their elopement, Benjamin and Elaine stop grinning and stare ahead, each considering for the first time the seriousness of their act and the problems ahead; Nichols' muting...
Driving a Wedge. Indeed, when North Viet Nam wants to sit down at the negotiating table, it can communicate its desire directly to the U.S. within a matter of hours from any number of world capitals. U.S. Ambassador to Burma Henry A. Byroade has been in frequent touch with North Vietnamese officials and could be reached at any time. So, too, could embassy personnel in Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want...
...learn rather than accumulate degrees, and who will return throughout their lives for intellectual stimulus. The university should also be "far more interested in expounding the principles and the philosophy underlying a body of knowledge rather than the knowledge itself." He predicts an age of the "global university"-with frequent exchanges of professors and students across international frontiers...