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...becomes the President who normalizes relations with China depends less on his own ingenuity than on Peking's ability to replace its Maoist aberrations with a more pragmatic approach. Another critical problem in the area, and one that is often overlooked, is Japan. The Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn places the restructuring of Washington-Tokyo relations among the top five priorities of the new Administration in the foreign field; former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Edwin Reischauer, not surprisingly, places it even higher. Reischauer also notes that in the rest of Asia a precipitate U.S. pullout from Viet...
...Special Breed of Men. Norwegian whalers first sailed into the Antarctic in 1904; for years after that, their voyages sounded like something out of Herman Melville. The trip to the whaling grounds took a tedious four weeks. The seas were awesome and the food terrible. Even seasoned sailors were sick much of the time. Once the hunt began, they had to face not only danger from harpooned whales but also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could...
...20th-in the Sierra Club's devoted campaign in behalf of conservation. The textual message is sorely understated, but the incomparable color photography and reproduction make the point emphatically. The wildlife and sheer natural beauty of the Galapagos Islands (600 miles off the coast of Ecuador) inspired Herman Melville, who is quoted in the text, and Charles Darwin, who found in the ecology there the laws of natural selection that led to Origin of Species. It is to be hoped that Eliot Porter's fine pictures will not conjure up thoughts of a Galapagos Hilton...
...November FORTUNE, Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute research organization, wrote that most experts in the West anticipated that, without Soviet intervention, Czechoslovakia would start trading with West Germany, permit the establishment of strong Western cultural influences, allow a "general atrophy" of the Communist Party and the eventual flowering of social democracy...
Dear World--A dull musical with nothing to recommend it except the beautiful Angela Lansbury. Jerry Herman wrote the unhelpful score. Pre-Broadway tryout at the COLONIAL...