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...real keynoter was Dr. Abraham J. Heschel, whose book you review on the same page but whose thumping paper at the conference you ignore. Dr. Heschel recalled an earlier conference on religion and race, that between Moses and Pharaoh, and predicted an equally happy outcome for this one. His prediction, I feel certain, will be borne out in the long-term fruits of this historic meeting...
...McNamara has presided over a fundamental reorganization of the armed services to increase efficiency and save money. Where top Pentagon officials formerly had to wade through as many as eleven separate-and often conflicting-intelligence reports from the services daily, they now get a single, four-page summary from the unified Defense Intelligence Agency. Millions of dollars have been saved on items ranging from belt buckles to bloomers by the creation of a single Defense Supply Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services...
While plunging into such specifics, McNamara never lets them blur the end purpose of his cold war strategy. That strategy was explained to Congress fortnight ago in a 198-page report that House Armed Forces Committee Chairman Carl Vinson, who has fought some McNamara policies, described as "one of the most significant documents ever presented to Congress...
...Faculty had only about 45 minutes to discuss the Conway report, and thus no definite steps could be taken yesterday. But by the March 5 meeting the committee will prepare a 50 to 60 page study complete with detailed statistics of the Freshman Seminar program...
...final section in this monumental 75 page issue contains three book reviews. The editors have taken great pains to secure the right people: Michael H. Bronnert, whose thesis topic is British policy towards Palestine in 1930, reviews The Balfour Declaration by Leonard Stein. Werner L. Gundersheimer, a Junior Fellow at work on a book in sixteenth century French history, reviews a study of Jewish-Gentile relations in medieval and modern times. And Michael Schwartz, a frequent contributor to these columns and editor of The Harvard Review, assesses Letting Go by Philip Roth. Only Schwartz, who has a much more difficult...