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...anybody's going to beat Pittsburgh, it's St. Louis. The Cards own the Pirates in face-to-face meetings and need only a good season from Ray Washburn or Al Jackson to back up Bob Gibson in a pennant run. The Dodgers are mortal without Koufax and will start three or four players you've never heard of. Cincinnati, to be a challenger, needs a good season from too many people who had their last good season two or three years...
...district, seems likely to remain, but Loser Couve de Murville is expected to be replaced. Apparently, though, De Gaulle is not overly disappointed with the makeup of the Assembly itself. The opposition will be strong enough to give his government constant trouble but too weak to put it in mortal danger. Besides, if the Assembly gets too rambunctious, the general can always legally dissolve it and call new elections...
...husband did not suggest that he ever had any reluctance to challenge the top figures of government. On his way to interview the Emperor of Japan, he asked his companions to help him frame an unusual question: How would you ask the Emperor how it felt to be a mortal and no longer revered as a god? He himself then proceeded to frame the question, simply and in a dignified manner that robbed it of any impertinence. He was a frequent visitor at the White House, particularly during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and he never lost a certain...
...theatrical grace is hard to come by at Harvard; its omission in the Lowell production is not a mortal sin. And one touch in Toad of Toad Hall would seem to show that God may be smiling on the play. When Mole enters Badger's digs she myopically surveys the huge Lowell House chandelier and murmurs an impressed, "Oh I say," After an infinitude of blithely ignorant House productions it is good to see a cast aware that a couple of tons of glass and wire may come plummeting down on them any minute...
...Your Essay "The Morality of War" [Jan. 20] was thoughtprovoking, and on a subject about which thought should be provoked. I myself cannot justify any sort of mortal violence. Such abstractions as "freedom" lose their meaning when used as justification for killing. You can't save a man for democracy by shooting him and bombing his children (even if in "error"). Since life itself is the only sure human value, and therefore the measure of all others, the taking of it is certainly immoral. Viet Nam, with hypocrisy-cloaked brutality on both sides, only confirms my distaste...