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What was there to talk about? At nearly every stop in the 8,000-mile route from New Delhi to Washington, Nehru had been willing to hint at what was on his mind, e.g., bad relations between the U.S. and Peking, India's economic needs, mistrust of the U.S.-endorsed Baghdad Pact, the Suez Canal, colonialism...
Often, his efforts to avoid unpleasantness take the form of hypochondria-as he puts it, "I'm a doctor freak." Although his doctor says he is an unusually healthy specimen, Duke tends to mistrust his ability to stay well; if his pulse rate seems slow to him in Las Vegas, it means a call to New York, for his doctor to take the next plane out. He will not tolerate air conditioning-"You know, I'm delicate. My hair gets wet, the air conditioning hits it, and I get a sharp pain right down the middle...
...Systematic mistrust no longer seems as necessary," he said, summing up the cold war, because the Russians may now be moving "towards a rapprochement with the concepts of the West." Pineau failed even to sway several members of his own diplomatic entourage. As he flew back to Paris to face an uproar of press criticism, a press attache of the French embassy in Washington quietly passed the word that during his visit Christian Pineau had frequently spoken for himself and not for France...
Chamber music has been Elliott Carter's most successful field so far. He tends to mistrust the musical stage because it depends on so many people (but he yet may write an opera), and his orchestral works take too many rehearsals to be much performed. Nevertheless, he has no inclination to write for quick success. As the only son of a well-to-do Manhattan lace importer, he inherited an income, and, in addition, he has made a pleasant discovery: "The music I like to write turns out to be the most popular anyway...
Novelist Shaplen's setting is authentic. His Saigon is hot, and more oppressive than the heat is the sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with...