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...fighting to keep out Red China, the regime that stands formally condemned by the U.N. as an aggressor. Once again, the Communist nations and some neutrals are urging Peking's admission-though the sincerity of their efforts is in some doubt. Where once the U.S. could muster enough votes to sidetrack the matter from year to year, this time the U.N.'s new members, as well as the U.S.'s own allies, insisted on the debate-and indeed the U.S. position was strong enough to bear discussion. The expected conclusion: despite all the talk. Red China will...
...novel wears his experience like a potbelly. In repeated passages the reader senses that Brinkley is not really interested in writing about "Vital" magazine; he is memorializing bar-car grudges and enthusiasms, thrashing editorial villains and offering prosy bouquets to office heroes (naturally, these are writers who muster the courage to quit and take honest jobs). But Brinkley has shown originality in his formula, for literary success-he writes the sort of book that Hollywood improves...
...time for you to resume your report?" Stevens asked. "That's just where I'm headed," replied Mr. K. "And if you plan to listen you'd better muster all your patience. It's going to last another full two hours." Stevens listened and cabled his impressions to New York, where Robert McLaughlin and Henry Grunwald wrote and edited the report of the Khrushchev performance that tried a great many patiences last week. See THE WORLD...
...dragging tempo and uncertainty of pitch give her away. But her voice-more nasal and corrugated than ever-is still an impressive instrument in Fogyism and Wild Women Don't Have the Blues, as Ida sells her message with a conviction that singers a third her age cannot muster...
...SOUTH VIET NAM, the Communist guerrillas have doubled their strength in the past six months and seem able to muster a battalion-sized force at any point they choose, strike with it, and be gone before the road-bound army of President Ngo Dinh Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South...