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...aloof and solitary bachelor, who liked to paint, cultivate roses and ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished...
Although the Society will ponder current and controversial topics, Green said that discussions would be for the sake of controversy itself rather than any hope of resolving issues. "What the club will be depends on who comes," he added, but already tutors and graduate students connected with the House have shown interest, "so the outcome looks propitious...
...they ponder these pros and cons, Russia's cold-war planners must also be acutely aware of another complicating factor. Abdul Karim Kassem, now the Communists' most useful front man in the Arab world, was once a most useful servant of Nuri asSaid. And so long as Kassem, lifelong conspirator and dissembler, keeps any of the keys of power in Iraq, there is always the chance that he may yet teach Russia a lesson that the West has learned to its sorrow-the lesson that events in the Middle East have their own momentum...
...been smashed by Red-led street mobs. "People should not have done that," mused General Kassem. "They should have left matters in the hands of the law. But the revolution is a fire, and in this fire both the dry and the wet burn." It was a metaphor to ponder...
...Thomas Griffith, 43, TIME'S Foreign Editor. Equable tempered, well wrought and carefully thought out, The Waist-High Culture is more inquiry than indictment, utters its qualms with conviction and its convictions with some qualms. It is not a call to the cultural barricades, but an invitation to ponder and reflect on the occasionally wayward American...