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ALMOST unnoticed because of the distractions of Viet Nam, the rest of Asia has been undergoing some widespread and fundamental changes. In the past several months, a suddenly cooler China has been the catalyst of a number of gradual shifts that have been taking place in the mood and manner of Asia's capitals. Last week's invitation to the U.S. table-tennis team to visit China was an example of Peking's new approach...
Bergreen has reorganized-and necessarily simplified-Twain in order that Huck's gradual recognition of the nigger Jim's humanity and, more than that, friendship provide a thematic structure. In counterpoint are arranged those episodes ashore in which Huck discovers the prevailing inhumanity of most other pre-Civil War, Mississippi Valley traditions. Perhaps because for many in the audience, suspense is precluded by knowledge of the book, while, for the rest, the bare precis that remains appears emotionally shallow, Huck's journey down the Mississippi lacks even the rudimentary sense of adventure that Tom Sawyer would demand of such...
Handing over its assumed responsibility for Southeast Asia to Japan may be on Washington's agenda, but it is highly unlikely this will be anything more than a gradual readjustment designed not to endanger the counter-revolutionary status quo in Southeast Asia. Growing American investments in Southeast Asia oil bear this...
Most professors contacted saw the speech as an attempt to resurrect public support for a policy of gradual withdrawal. "He was clearly making an emotional appeal for support," remarked Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government...
Richard S. Winslow Jr. '64, a former U. S. pacification adviser in South Vietnam, urged gradual withdrawal from Southeast Asia yesterday...