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Unfortunately, concluded Rickover, "the very thought of recognizing differences in intellectual ability is repugnant to our equalitarian philosophy . . . We are committed to the basic assumption that there is no person who can claim to be an indispensable man. We proceed from this entirely correct assumption to the incorrect conclusion that neither does a democracy have indispensable men. This is obviously erroneous ... No society can function without its indispensable...
...French poetry when it decides to break out of the straitjacket of French rationality. Private images seem to compete successfully with good sense. Yet the French is intoxicating to the ear −even to a merely Berlitz-trained ear. And while the English translations are often flat and sometimes incorrect, readers will find a good man in these pages, a man who wears the mask of language, not in order to hide his identity but to make plain his role in the tragedy...
...Radford proposes to cut the U.S. armed forces from 2,800,000 to 2,000,000 in the next four years. The Army and Navy, said the report (correctly), would absorb most of the manpower slash. All three service chiefs, the story went on, are in revolt against Radford (incorrect: the Air Force's General Nathan F. Twining is with him, the Army's General Maxwell Taylor and the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke against). So torrid is the battle, wrote Leviero, that all discussions of the manpower program have been postponed until after the election...
...Party, the party's First Secretary Antonin Novotny admitted that dissatisfaction had spread beyond the students. As a result of Khrushchev's historic speech to the 20th Party Congress, said Novotny, "235 party organizations, embracing a little over 15,000 members, under the influence of ambiguous and incorrect views, made the request that an extraordinary congress of the party should be called." Novotny turned the idea down flat: the party line was correct and "we need not alter...
...satisfy the party's dissident elements, more had to be done. The party promptly sacked Prosecutor General Vaclav Ales, the judge at Slansky's trial, and two Cabinet ministers. The conference closed on a note of repression. Newspapers were warned against "incorrect ideas," and "reactionary elements among students" were threatened darkly. Dozens of students were picked up by police. The Czechs were laboring hard to keep...