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...cover story on General Johnson is a welcome change from the articles I have read about our misunderstood specimens of manhood who manage to muster up enough energy to hold up placards and march. As I read the grim reminder of Bataan and the death march, I couldn't help comparing those soldiers with our protest marchers, many of whom would be wasting a match to burn their draft cards, because they would be either physically or mentally unfit to serve in the armed forces. We who are mothers of young sons should add this article to their required...
When State's distilling process works as it should, the best of the reporting lands on Rusk's desk, and thereby reaches the top of the department's globally based pyramid. His responsibility at this point is much misunderstood. Columnist James Reston, for example, took the department to task because it "has not developed for the President any guiding strategy of foreign policy or any order of priorities in that field." To such criticism, Rusk says: "While Mr. Truman's remark that 'the President makes foreign policy' is not the whole story, it serves...
Says Mrs. Hicks: "I defy any of the civil rights leaders to prove that any of our neighborhood schools are inferior." When Negroes protest that this is the old "separate but equal" argument, she retorts: "Stop banging on our door-the real problem is housing." She feels misunderstood. "In every one of the major cities the civil rights leaders have found a scapegoat. If it has to be me, so be it. My conscience is clear...
...London Times was typical: "This great ballet company, so sadly misunderstood when it came in 1950 and 1952, was now appreciated for its true, priceless worth. This is one of the noblest classic ballet companies of all time . . . The range of Balanchine is fantastic." He is the "unending, unflagging Mozart among choreographers." When the reviews appeared, the tickets were snapped up in a box-office crush that has meant S.R.O. audiences ever since...
Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...