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...every kind goes out. If the climate is one of dissension . . . our tendency is to withdraw." Dulles reminded the Europeans that since the defeat of EDC "there has been a great wave of disillusionment in the U.S., a feeling that, after all, the situation in Europe is pretty hopeless." As things stood, the Secretary warned, it would be impossible for the U.S. government to give Europe the pledge that it once offered to EDC: the pledge to keep its "fair share" of troops on the Continent, "whilst that area is threatened...
This more flexible approach does not mean that the U.S. in Asia has passed from the hopeless effort at on-the-spot containment to a positive policy of rolling back Communism. But at least it is drifting, if not driving, in that direction...
...Tate Sanetha, Saturday-born street Arab, was well known to everybody . . .* By the age of twelve he was a heavy drinker. Often as a sequel to his drinking bouts, his stupefied little body might be seen carried home on someone's shoulder. His father, deeply ashamed and hopeless of reclaiming him, could only banish him to live as he would in a paddy godown outside the town. The boy brewed his own liquor there...
...Eight members of New York's Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging reported last week that Hollywood is the "archfoe" of the elderly. Reason: movies portray old age as "a trap, a pit, a hopeless end,'' and glorify "teenage super-beauties as the American ideal." Objectionable oldster types, according to State Senator Thomas C. Desmond, 63: Lionel Barrymore (as a cantankerous oldster), Billy Burke (as a rattlebrain). Objectionable youngster types, "the type of youth glorification that makes it difficult for older women to find a useful, happy place in modern life": Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe...
...Some ants are hopeless "alcoholics." Certain species of British ants keep caterpillars of the Lycaena butterfly in their underground nests, by caressing them obtain drops of ant-intoxicating liquid. In their insatiable craving, the ants feed their own offspring and eggs to the caterpillars: nevertheless, when the caterpillars mature into butterflies, the ants peaceably let them escape to the outside world...