Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will little Oedipus escape from his complex? The answer is a real skirt-hanger, suggesting every known perversion, until the happy ending when boy rinds a girl like Mom. The Cocteau-film atmosphere of high camp is sustained by skilled faux-simple prose, which at times evokes Heinrich Mann, at other times less skilled practitioners of psychologically sophisticated pornophilia...
...unusual nature of quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter's scale for measuring earth tremors is an international standard...
...State Department. For the No. 3 job, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Johnson had selected Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, 53, former dean of the Yale Law School, who is the elder brother of Walt Whitman Rostow, the top White House foreign affairs adviser; Gene Rostow succeeds Thomas Mann, who resigned in June...
Rostow, who will succeed the much maligned Thomas Mann in the third-ranking post in the State Department, is expected to assume Ball's duties in supervising U.S. policy toward Europe. Like Ball, he firmly believes in a strong Atlantic Alliance including the Common Market and Great Britain, although three years ago he authored a plan for intra-alliance nuclear sharing that differed sharply in conception from the MLF plan backed by Ball. Most important, he must cope with the problems of French military independence, West Germany's nuclear role, and the size and significance of U.S. troop commitments...
...hand to get first copies of Komer's report was Donald MacDonald, 44, who replaces Charles Mann as AID chief in Viet Nam. MacDonald has headed AID programs in Pakistan and Nigeria, and is known as an expert troubleshooter. The report's main points: > Galloping inflation, which could yet undo all the benefits of the U.S. buildup by swamping Viet Nam's economy with more money than it can absorb, has been curbed by a drastic 50% devaluation of the piaster, as well as by new economic restraints worked out jointly by U.S. and Vietnamese officials. - Saigon...