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...Huntington says, was what brought about Diem's downfall. By the same token, he adds, the existence of so many groups makes some form of coalition democracy the only kind which can hold the country together. Future stability depends on whether the Thieu-Ky government can accommodate the growing plural consciousness of population it depends on for support. Huntington thinks that there are signs that this may happen...
EDUCATION this week runs the second installment of "Kudos" (from the Greek noun for glory; it's singular, not plural), an annual feature in TIME since 1925. Two staff members also received degrees: Managing Editor Otto Fuerbringer, an L.H.D. from New York's Wagner College, and the publisher of TIME, an LL.D. from Vermont's St. Michael's College, with the citation: "Behold the whole huge world wrapped each week in red-bordered paper...
Talk Stories is a triumph of skill over form. Few of the stories run four pages, and saddled with the first-person plural narrative gambit, Miss Ross has to tell her story fast and well. Details must be spared in the right places, interview conversations compressed into monologues, and revealing quotes made ironic rather than cute. It is, admittedly, a difficult genre, but Miss Ross has mastered it and added a dimension of her own. She says a great deal by telescoping events and people with minute details. Security Council delegates, for example, are surveyed characteristically by a running description...
...national uproar, has been nicknamed "The Mudslinger Affair." Before a packed House of Commons, Liberal Pearson announced that he had appointed Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62, to look into the possible security lapses resulting from the friendships of German Go-Go Girl Gerda Munsinger, 36, with "ministers-plural" of the previous Conservative government. Many of the hearings will be held in camera. Barring major new developments, this should put the whole case largely out of the public eye until the judge reports to Pearson later this spring...
...lived in Canada from 1955 to 1961, then returned to Germany, where she had died. He gave her name as Olga Munsinger and said she had been a spy before moving to Canada. There, he asserted, she had become involved with some of Diefenbaker's "Ministers-plural," and when Dief had found out about the affairs he had done nothing to stop them. "This is worse than Profumo," Cardin charged...