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Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister, seems to have yielded scarcely an inch to make a stopgap, face-saving Berlin solution possible. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter of the United States, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd of Britain and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville of France have stood firm on their starting positions...
...highly readable, well documented and thoroughly logical words Cater makes a very impressive case against believing everything you read in the newspapers. Some of it is put there because a reporter needs a story. Some of it gets in because a Washington policy-maker is having a quarrel and needs public support (but the other side of the argument may not make the story.) A great deal of it gets in because of the constant competition for public attention in Washington...
...these regulations. Their opening chapters on what it is like to be an aristocrat and a reporter, how Washington reporting has changed, and the mortal penalty a society pays for not facing its big decisions in the open are only occasionally either penetrating of powerful. The selected columns which make up the body of the volume are neither effective records or the decay of the West nor convincing answers to its problems. On the whole, the volume reeks of self-congratulation of the most nauseating variety, and the style has a ponderous and soporific quality which makes it excellent bedtime...
...North Tachen Island--does Joseph Alsop's prose ring true. Elsewhere, even in such perfectly reasonable injunctions as "Great national problems which are not honestly presented to the nation-will either be badly solved; or they will simply be left unsolved until they grow rancid by over-keeping and make a public stink," the Alsopian manner renders Alsopian reason repulsive. The columnists' work is clearly that of dedicated and respectable, if unattractive vision of the truth. But the tone of the pursuers, the positive arrogance of Joseph Alsop (who once stormed out of an interview which he had requested with...
...will pay, and how he can get the most from the College will always plague the community. The role of freshmen in the College has already been re-examined; next year admissions and possibly athletics will be studied. And no one has yet figured out a way to make the lecture-examination system appealing to the average student...