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Peking last week publicly admitted that Red China will not have its long-promised nuclear bomb for a long time to come. Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi conceded that economic troubles and the quarrel with the Russians (who withdrew their technicians and broke an atomic-aid treaty) have seriously delayed Peking's atomic program. It would be "several years," Chen told visiting Japanese correspondents, before the regime could even test a crude atom bomb...
Everywhere, Der Stellvertreter has caused a storm of comment and quarrel. For in it, Hochhuth argues that Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of European Jews because he saw Hitler as a necessary barrier between Soviet Communism and the Christian West, and hoped to negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix...
...chameleon poet," who is submerged in his subject through "empathy"-the projecting of one's self into the feelings of others, even such slight creatures as sparrows scrabbling for crumbs in the street, or a field mouse peeping out of a field's withered grass. "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated," he wrote to Sister Fanny, "the energies displayed in it are fine. . . This is the very stuff of poetry...
...have little quarrel with Conant's suggestions for professional training of teachers. His analysis is remarkably balanced; though he condemns courses which create a mythology of a teaching science, and eclectic courses which relate education to the nature of the universe, he approves the necessity of expertly taught, specific "methods" courses, and stresses the paramount importance of practice teaching...
Sizer had no quarrel, however, with Conant's recommendations for drastically revising state education laws to give immediate certification to any graduate of a legitimate teacher training program whose competence is attested to by the president of the institution...