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Avoiding the Ruts. In closed-door sessions, Nixon had long talks with local Republican leaders, trying to bring home the major lessons learned from last year's loss at the polls: the G.O.P. needs stronger city organizations, better candidates. Nixon himself was trying, with only partial luck, to persuade attractive Republicans to run for key posts. Senator Jacob Javits bowed out of the New York City mayoralty race (see New York) despite Nixon's urging. American Motors Corp. President George Romney was still pondering Nixon's suggestion that he run for Governor of Michigan...
...said that scientific attitudes were responsible for producing the modern ethnographic report, "which tells everything about a primitive culture except its values." These scientific descriptions are fine, she said, but only present a partial idea of what life in the culture is like...
...replace a dictator by a democratic authority committed to maintain the social gains of the revolution requires somewhat more extended comment, best put in the form of questions: 1) Why did Castro take on the characteristics of a demagogic dictator? Certainly American policy under both Klsenhower and Kennedy bear partial responsibility. 2) what realistic prospect was there that a regime supported by the U.S.A. against substantial popular support for Castro would not be much worse and bloodier than the Castro regime has been? I believe that any such prospects were at beat slight 2) And what if the attempt failed...
Faun in Old Felt. In his 35 years in Africa, Ionides has lived for ten days on the partial contents of two ostrich eggs, been trampled by a charging elephant resulting in total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free, brought down a writhing mamba. He has been bitten by snakes half a dozen times, recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple...
...landed in the valley bearing another 200 soldiers. They were the pick of the Royal Army and. hopefully, could stop any new Communist advance and stabilize the battle lines for the expected ceasefire. As the lines stood, the Pathet Lao held three provinces, and the government had at least partial control of the other nine...