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...Crafty Trick." In any case, Administration spokesmen continued their patient efforts to clarify and explain U.S. policy. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who of late has acted as chief exponent of Administration aims in Asia, tried diligently to answer the dissenters on NBC-TV's Meet the Press. To criticism of U.S. bombing raids, he said: "We did not send our bombers against North Viet Nam until full regiments of the North Vietnamese forces were in the South, until it was recognized in every chancellery and every embassy around the world that the North Vietnamese had committed...
...patient people," says Hubert Humphrey and most of the world agrees. Americans are seen-and see themselves-as restless and driven. New skyscrapers go up at the drop of a mortgage and are torn down almost as fast. Cars, houses, jobs and spouses are changed with an ease and rapidity that shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through...
...Rembrandt's Titus, sold last year to California Collector Norton Simon. At Sotheby's in London last week, a Flemish painting of St. George spitting the dragon brought $616,000. Since the oil, attributed to Hubert van Eyck, is the size of a postcard (5| in. by 41 in.), it cost a record $26,552 per sq. in. At the new record's rate, a canvas a yard square would cost $34,411,000, more than 15 times the highest price ever recorded for a painting. A Rembrandt etching, called the "Hundred Guilder" print for the healthy...
When the discussion turned to Administration policy, Ambassador Thai took a hard line that made Hubert Humphrey sound like an appeaser. Americans who support recognition of the Viet Cong in negotiations and "who have no direct living experience with Communism," Thai said "are causing a lot of headaches. I myself and every Vietnamese non-Communist who is seeking dignity a certain degree of freedom would never consider association with, the Viet Cong as a solution...
Though the debate over Viet Nam had diminished by quite a few decibels, Vice President Hubert Humphrey's voice still rang out loud and clear in defense of the American stand. In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Humphrey observed that "the war in Viet Nam is far more than Neville Chamberlain's 'quarrel in a remote country among people of whom we know nothing' "-an allusion to the British Prime Minister's celebrated remark about Hitler's planned invasion of Czechoslovakia...