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Neither a swashbuckler by nature nor a parlor diplomat (he loathes parties, puts up with them only as part of his job), Cabot is known around the State Department as a skilled troubleshooter who works at his job and writes sharp, effective reports. His technical qualifications for Rio include duty at seven posts south of the border (his wife, an American, was born and reared in Mexico City), a swing through Latin America in 1953 with the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, and service as U.S. delegate to a number of Latin American conferences. Prognosis for his Senate...
Into Harrisburg, Pa. one evening last week fluttered a particular swallow known among political ornithologists as Lyndon Baines Johnson. Ostensibly, the Senate majority leader had flown to Pennsylvania's capital for a victory dinner saluting the new Democratic Governor, David Leo Lawrence. But the northward migration served a serious second purpose. Lyndon Johnson has been banded as a possible compromise 1960 presidential nominee. Even as he protests, he recognizes the danger of too much Southern identification; smoothly, in recent months, Texan Lyndon has changed to Western plumage.* Now, with a speech in Pennsylvania and two more at week...
...semi-retirement and self-exile in Switzerland, Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 70 last month, let it be known that he and wife Oona, 34, expect their seventh child in November...
...more principled and responsible than himself. No matter how often we ask, however, Zane leaves us in a moral haziness, which leads us in turn to suspect that he doesn't know how to solve the moral dilemma he has generated. Perhaps this is because he has known too well these strange people, because he has been too long in their strange world to distinguish now between ponography and love, dirt and scum, mistakes and downright sinfulness...
...addition to the course taken by Sophomores in Biblical History (which he mentions as the only specific course requirement) there is a requirement that all freshmen take the six hour course known as English 100, "Language, Literature, and the Individual...