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...Vietnamese Prime Minister emerged from his drab Paris hotel one day last week, and took the subway across town. At the Palais d'Orsay he went up to his new government offices (a second-floor hotel room), where he started dictating memoranda to his executive' secretary (a part-time animated-cartoon artist). All day the Prime Minister greeted diplomats, newspapermen and Vietnamese well-wishers in courtly turmoil, now and then lapsing into deep meditation and silence...
What will they talk about? For four years, from Asia to Europe to America, Protestant and Orthodox leaders have been exchanging memoranda, sifting agenda and preparing to discuss six themes, for which the Assembly will divide itself into six commissions: 1) Our Oneness in Christ and Our Disunity as Churches, 2) The Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life, 3) The Responsible Society in a World Perspective, 4) Christians in the Struggle for World Community, 5) Racial and Ethnic Tensions, 6) The Laity: the Christian in His Vocation. The very fact that 161 Protestant and Orthodox communions...
...settled down to a long career in the Treasury-and an interesting career it was. He was not a great economist. His specialty was international payments, which does not require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda on the modified gold standard, but he published only one book in his life: his Harvard thesis. His consuming interest was not in economics for its own sake but as a path to political power. He once told a friend that he had originally planned to study government, "but pretty...
...accordance with the Corporation's decision. Provost Buck recently sent memoranda to acting director of the observatories Donald H. Menzel and members of the Observatory Council...
...that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive achievements. Some of his friends claim that he has worsened situations he came to change. Yet he has won himself a rare position in the Western...