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...opening of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Bohlen worked his way through the diplomatic ranks and finally in 1953 was appointed Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. by President Eisenhower despite the vociferous opposition of Senator Joe McCarthy. In 1957, he was transferred to Manila, where he helped to mend the deteriorating state of relations between the U.S. and the Philippines and became known as one of America's top diplomatic troubleshooters. When France and America seemed to be drifting apart in the early 1960s, President Kennedy appointed him Ambassador in Paris...
Checkmate. On behalf of the analytic school, London's Dr. Ronald David Laing says: "Schizophrenia is not a disease at all. And in contrast with traditional thinking, schizophrenia is not in one person but is between people. It represents a broken-down relationship, and the way to mend it is to involve the schizophrenic in a relationship that means something to him." Dr. Laing, 38, does not claim to have originated this idea. It traces back to the brilliant American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), whose theories have been neglected partly because he wrote in obscure jargon. Sullivan...
...those of liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough. If there is a villain (other than Oswald) in the Manchester piece, it is Connally, who-says Manchester-wanted to use the presidential visit to serve his own political ends. Calling a press conference, Connally insisted that Kennedy came to Texas to mend his own political fortunes, not to resolve a local quarrel. Moreover, Connally said that he, too, had advised the President not to come...
...could only happen in Sagan's Paris. When la chamade begins to pulse through Lucile and Antoine, Clare taps out her surrender and Charles shrewdly retreats. Lucile leaves Charles for her new lover and makes an earnest effort to mend her indolent ways, but holding a job and living in one room are too boring a price to pay for love. When she gets pregnant, it is Charles who supplies the abortion fee; and when she quits her struggle for an independent life, it is Charles who gives her back...
When Reischauer was first sent to Japan it was to mend the "broken dialogue" which had developed between the two nations. Reischauer feels that most of the fundamental work required to breach the gulf in understanding which became most apparent in 1960 has been accomplished...