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...NUCLEAR nonproliferation treaty sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union will probably pass the U.N. General Assembly. But far from being what Ambassador Goldberg calls "one of the most significant and hopeful steps toward world peace," the treaty will perpetuate the division of the world into independent possessors and dependent beggars, and will do little to ease world tensions...
...Arthur Goldberg had talked so often of resigning as Ambassador to the United Nations that when he actually did it last week, apparently because he would be bypassed in any negotiations with North Viet Nam, there was no surprise left. But the choice of his successor was surprising-until it was analyzed...
Here's how it works: start with Rube Goldberg, 84 (A), who 60 years ago became one of the country's top cartoonists (B), made his name part of the language with those whimsical inventions (C), helped found the National Cartoonists Society in 1945 (D), the members of which then named its highest award for excellence, "the Reuben," after Goldberg (E), which was then presented to leading cartoonists annually (F), and finally last week was presented to Goldberg himself (G), who retired from cartooning five years ago to begin a new career in sculpting...
Rounding out the package are the Schoenberg piano works, which Gould plays with the sense of divine order and mystery that Gieseking used to bring to Debussy; an excellent stereo rechanneling of the album that launched Gould's recording career 13 years ago, the Goldberg Variations ("In those days, my tempi were souped up and rather breakneck"); and a conversation LP in which he admits that his nine years as a recitalist were "rather unpleasant, rather traumatic." In the time since, Gould says that he has had "four of the best years of my life." It hasn...
...lengthened list a "tortuous maneuver" to delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Thant has been talking about Paris and a couple of other cities. Though it has criticized U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Paris would meet the basic U.S. requirements. The reason for its omission from Rusk...