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Moro is a meek little law professor from the University of Bari, who never drives above 35 m.p.h. and maintains that he would only be caught dead in an airplane. But he possesses a virtue rare in Italy. He is a born listener. He patiently attended while the feuding faction leaders talked themselves out, then shyly pointed out to Scelba's fans that they were being used as Fanfani's tools. With that, the rightists withdrew Scelba's Cabinet candidacy, settled for two new lesser Cabinet posts. Fanfani was not consulted until everything else was set. Then...
...FOUNDERS, by P. H. Newby. This deft, witty novel about a meek man who must learn to hate recalls the searing, epigrammatic satires of Henry Green...
Destroyed Myth. The jubilant Indian press last week printed the army's claim to have already destroyed 284 U.S.-built Patton tanks, which had never before been battle-tested. The progress of the war, crowed the Indian Express, "destroys much of the myth of the meek and mild Hindus as it has the legend of the superiority of the American-built and American-supplied Patton tanks and Sabre jets...
Mecklin was in the thick of the skirmishes between the U.S. press, the Saigon government and the U.S. embassy, and very much in the midst of the bitter political battles that ended the career and the life of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet "Meek the Knife" emerged from his difficult tour of duty to write an excellent account of the South Vietnamese war which he called Mission in Torment (see BOOKS). Author Mecklin had unique credentials for the task, having reported the .disastrous French campaign against the Communists and the establishment of the Diem regime for TIME between...
MISSION IN TORMENT By John Meek-I'm. 318 pages. Doubleday...