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...Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power...
Limits of Liberty. In theory, John Kennedy's growing apparatus of power rests upon his own historical study of the nation's active political leaders-a study confirmed during a recent reading of Presidential Power, by Columbia University's Professor Neustadt (who was added permanently to the Kennedy staff last week as an adviser on the structure and operations of Government). In practice, it rests on the President's determination to get things done-and his belief that in politics, power is the prime, even the only, mover of events...
...then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...
...through the Battle of the Bulge (scenes of slaughter at the front, the shooting of American prisoners); to the liberation of the first concentration camp (emaciated prisoners, panic-stricken Nazis, the guards killed by the prisoners). He follows the same group, picking up a few camp-followers, through captured Neustadt, Sergeant Bing's home town (street fighting, the establishment of a civilian administration, the recapture of the town by the Nazis and the hanging of the American-appointed mayor); through the occupation of Kremmen (pop. 200,000), with Loomis and Willoughby falling into the clutches of a Marlene Dietrich...
Last week, Vienna's police said that he had been arrested by Russian soldiers. Wilhelm Habsburg-Lothringen, would-be King of the Ukraine, was resting quietly in Wiener-Neustadt's Soviet internment camp. The Russians, it appeared, were taking no chances even with ghosts...