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...Having suffered a rebuttal of his Far Eastern policy, the columnist also found himself under attack for the policy he proposes in the West. Writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Dean Acheson quoted Lippmann's advice that the U.S. should leave Europe to the Europeans. Calling this the "grossest error," Acheson recalled that the U.S. was forced to intervene twice this century to settle an "essentially European" war. "Whether the problems be those left unresolved in Central Europe and Germany at the end of the last war; or the control and limitation of armaments; or the proliferation of nuclear...
...communing with nature and refusing money, she can maintain an "ethnic" image, it is only to those pseudo-intellectual "preppies" and college "folkniks" that she appeals. To those who know something about folk music, publicizing oneself with the "hair to the navel, dirt in the toes" effect is the grossest form of commercialism...
...developed, the outraged party was not Macmillan, but Gaitskell himself. Cried he: "This is the grossest travesty of what I said in endeavoring to explain to him-not, I fear, with much success-how our party system differed from the American." After some coaching by his editors, Buchwald grudgingly apologized: "I am sorry that anything I have written should have given offense to Gaitskell, for whom I formed a high regard. I was writing as a columnist and not as a political commentator. I did not think for one moment that anyone would take the article literally." But to inquiring...
...European markets. Equally visionary was Deputy Minister Gordon Robertson's suggestion to build an ocean pipeline from Ellesmere Island to Europe-a shorter distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North' is far from us, but it is close to the center of the modern world...
...harsh note sounded from the old Raj when Britain's new Archbishop of York, Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey (TIME, Jan. 16), wrote in Durham's diocesan magazine that Billy Graham "taught the grossest doctrines and flung his formula, 'the Bible says,' over teaching which is emphatically not that of the Bible." Said Billy: "I have the highest personal regard for the archbishop...