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...EverPresent Possibility." In contrast, Walter Lippmann, 72, elder statesman of the U.S. columnists, had a clear and unblinking view: "A full nuclear war would produce by far the biggest convulsion which has ever occurred since man appeared on this planet. In saying this, my object is not to add to the general creepiness. But we cannot understand the realities unless we remind ourselves that nuclear war is not just another war, but a wholly new order of violence...
...WALTER LIPPMANN, 71, syndicated pundit for the New York Herald Tribune, who has said: "There is nothing to teach at a school of journalism. What a journalist needs is an education...
Fairly potent criticism. But Rafferty called the journalists "ignorant men when it comes to knowing what it takes to educate a man for their profession. Even a brilliant man like Walter Lippmann seems never to have been able to realize that a journalism graduate has the most liberal of educations, and is much better prepared for the start of his career than some fellow who stumbles out of history, or literature, or sociology...
...cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full diplomatic intercourse." Wrote Pundit Lippmann: "As a result...
...Reports (10-11 p.m.). A year after his first TV appearance, Walter Lippmann again comments on the world's troubles...