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...running for the prestigious post in Paris are Under Secretary of State Livingston Merchant and two retired Army generals who blasted the Eisenhower Administration defense policies: onetime Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor and onetime Research and Development Chief James Gavin. Merchant will definitely pluck some plum, if not the Paris embassy then another major one. Among several contenders for the ambassadorship to Japan are John D. Rockefeller III, Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and Jeffrey Parsons, who is likely to be replaced as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs by U. Alexis Johnson, at present Ambassador...
...pirated liner seemed to have vanished from the map until a Danish freighter, chugging along a normal shipping lane, radioed that it had passed the Santa Maria and exchanged greetings. At the Pentagon press room in Washington, someone put up an ironical sign reading: "Sleep soundly tonight. The Danish merchant marine is watching over...
Shifts in the Wind. With the State Department's Charles ("Chip") Bohlen talked about for a top ambassadorship (possibly Paris), Democrats in Washington were continuing with the fascinating game of musical State chairs. Under Secretary (Political Affairs) Livingston Merchant would like to go to the Court of St. James's, but probably will draw a post somewhat less prestigious. J. Graham ("Jeff") Parsons, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, is hoping for the big job in Tokyo. Ambassador Henry Byroade, who was exiled from Egypt, first to South Africa and then to Afghanistan, by John Foster Dulles...
...York-born Composer Kastle, 31, wrote his first opera (about a stuffed alligator in a storm) when he was six. The son of a textile merchant, he attended Juilliard, every Saturday afternoon trudged up to the balcony of the Metropolitan Opera to listen to how the professionals did it. Although he has been composing vocal works ever since his Curtis Institute days, Kastle attempted only one adult opera before Deseret-a one-acter titled The Swing, having to do with a bride's premarital jitters. He is now at work on another opera on an American theme, laid...
...holding elections. But if the shake-up had a political lesson to offer, it was rather that austerity does not go down well with the princes of Saudi Arabia-especially in a year when oil revenues are expected to rise from $304 million to $320 million. Sighed one Arabian merchant happily: "The King of baksheesh is back on his throne...