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...cries for his resignation echoed in the streets of every major French city and town, that claim seemed destined, along with his once-proud Fifth Republic, for the dustbin of history. But last week, summoning all his genius for leadership, De Gaulle once more commanded the French people to heed his will for France. Astonishingly, once again they listened...
...During that time he wrote only two interesting but indifferent novels, An American Dream and Why Are We in Viet Nam? Ernest Hemingway, Mailer's onetime hero, also engaged in journalism but noted that "it blunts the instrument you write with." It may be time for Mailer to heed that warning...
What Humphrey and his backers, however, may not realize at this date is that the Democratic Party may pay little heed to its historical successes, fully aware at last that new techniques of political activity and new programs are required. This is not to say that Hubert Humphrey has no chance of getting nominated this August. Kennedy and McCarthy very well might cancel each other out. But even if Humphrey is nominated and elected, he is certain to be the first Democratic President in this century to face strong, incessant, radical uressure from the grass roots and from his former...
...Sneers. From Budapest to Peking, Communists greeted the gold stampede with outright gloating-showing at least that Lenin's followers still heed his counsel: "The way to defeat the capitalist system is to debauch its currency." Crowed the Polish trade-union council, Glos Pracy: "The dollar is doomed. It is possible that joint efforts by world financial circles will stave off the crisis temporarily, but this will only postpone the execution." Sneered the New China News Agency: "The capitalist monetary system has in fact collapsed...
...maneuver started the day before the New Hampshire vote. It occurred in the course of a twohour conversation between the Pres ident and Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen. Reviewing Kennedy's misgivings about the war, Sorensen allowed that the White House was paying too little heed to those who had rational alternatives to his present Viet Nam policy. Johnson replied that he had considered every proposal he knew of, and showed Sorensen a list of the people he had consulted. However, Johnson concluded, he would be glad to hear any new suggestions...