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Devious Schemes. For five years, the country was never quite sure what the President would say or do next. His most consistent policy was his antiCommunism. Guatemala was the training base for the Bay of Pigs invaders, and Ydigoras was loudest among Latin America's anti-Castroites. Yet recently, Ydigoras seemed to be going about it in a devious and dangerous way that enraged his most loyal supporters...
...accommodatingly explains in a new book that the doctrine is mostly dubious. Published last month in a five-shilling paperback gaily titled Honest to God, Bishop Robinson's revision of Anglican teaching has become a runaway English bestseller and has stirred up the Church of England's loudest row in years...
Almost four hundred students signed up the next week for Humanities 119--The Narrative Art--a course Van Doren devised in his last years at Columbia. Some say it is the best course they've ever taken, others that it is the loudest of the roaring guts. Whatever the consensus, the style and content of the course tell a great deal about this man who taught at Morningside Heights for almost 40 years and published close to 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, and criticism...
Perhaps the loudest and most effective blast of all came from Boston University's Jack Kelley with no axe to grind. Pronouncing the "premature selection a severe mistake," Kelley indicated that the ratings would certainly have been different if the committee had bothered to wait for B.C. to finish its disastrous northern trip...
Before his fall in 1960, Premier Adnan Menderes made a practice of padlocking hostile Turkish newspapers, imprisoned journalists by the hundreds; police once threw a newsboy into jail for hawking a headline about a minister's resignation. At the time, the loudest protests came from wispy old Opposition Leader Ismet Inonu, who denounced "those who would seek to establish a coercive regime." But now that he is in power himself, Premier Inonu, 78, shows signs of falling into Menderes' old habits...