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...General Maxwell D. Taylor's report that recommended more military aid to South Viet Nam, but he angrily refused to go along with the report's suggested domestic reforms. Yet the reforms called for are relatively modest and include a liberalization of Diem's harsh, one-man government, which has already disenchanted most of the nation's educated class and caused mass resignations of top officials, often in protest against arbitrary arrests; the removal of some of Diem's relatives and cronies who are widely believed to be lining their pockets at government expense...
Currently, Pedersen is having his first one-man U.S. exhibition at the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture-a show that to most other men would bring visions of new fame and soaring prices. Pedersen's visions are of quite another sort...
...Opposition. Under De Gaulle's one-man regime, the army has taken over the role of the political opposition. Instead of the Fourth Republic's recurring crises, it has substituted putsches. Since the 1958 uprising that cleared the way for De Gaulle's accession to power, the military crises have come annually, exercising a constant blackmail threat against government action it opposes. So mistrustful of the army is De Gaulle that its fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies are being doled out in quantities sufficient to last only a few days, after which any putsch would theoretically...
...sure guide to taste, Walpole conducted an unparalleled tour of society, from country house to pleasure gardens, from opera to masquerade, from a great ball to a midnight fire, from palace to Parliament, from England to France. It is a great one-man news chronicle with a beruffled-columnist flavor; now someone resigns, now someone elopes, now someone expires. Is military comment in order? "There ends another volume of the American war. It looks as if the history of it would be all we should have of it, except 40 millions of debts and three other wars that have grown...
...earnings higher than $15,000, limited landowners to a scant 100 acres. Warned Nasser: "Socialism is an endless road, and nobody knows how far it will be necessary to travel along it." On that endless road last week, Dictator Nasser planted some new, ominous signposts pointing toward even tighter one-man rule...