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...Thant last week as he prepared to vacate the post he has held since 1961, a job that the U.N.'s first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, once characterized as "the most impossible in the world." In an ordinary year, the selection of a new Secretary-General would overshadow most other matters on the agenda of the General Assembly. Ten years ago, in fact, that very issue brought the U.N. to the brink of a breakup when the Soviet Union tried to create an unwieldy three-man directorate in order to keep the post from falling into the hands...
...Israelis realize full well that their relative strength has increased during the past year, if only because of the setbacks suffered by the Arabs. Two events overshadow all the others in the Arab world: the death of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arabs' only supranational leader, and the crushing by Jordan's King Hussein of the Palestinian guerrillas who long operated freely within his country's borders. Only last month, in a continuing display of disunity, Syria and Iraq closed their borders with Jordan in protest against Hussein's routing of the guerrillas...
Part of the problem in writing about the brain has to do with language and loosely defined terminology. Halacy's brisk reportage, use of quaint diagrams and illustrations, and obvious enthusiasm for scientific breakthroughs tend to overshadow the innumerable qualifications he must employ. For the present, perhaps all that we can be certain of is Ambrose Bierce's definition of the brain: "An apparatus with which we think that we think...
...Poet Ezra Pound finds himself bitterly torn between those two cousins of the Columbidae family. In his translation from an Italian poem, the poet pounds the swarms of pigeons in the city of Venice that are, he says, "besmirching crowned heads, defiling brows and memorials . . . mocking the monuments which overshadow us." Besides, he complains, he abhors their habit of dumping "corrosive superfluities suddenly on the heads of pedestrians...
Therefore, the fact that Harvard's last two freshman teams have compiled a 22-1 record may be insignificant to this year's varsity. Those two Yardling squads maintained that record by averaging better than 11 runs per game. The lack of Crimson pitching depth may overshadow Harvard's potent batting attack...