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While the free world's press is quick to trumpet Soviet triumphs and even quicker to imagine them, it can also be faulted by its critics for failure to grasp the real achievements of the West. One such critic is the New York Times's Paris-based correspondent, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, who wrote last week that NATO conference delegates "came away encouraged" by the decisions reached in Paris, but that the "impression spread about the world was one of gloom...
...with him, outate, outdrank and outtalked his hosts in eight countries, and sparked a tremendous interest in doing business with Germany. Nothing defeats him. Says an associate: "As soon as he recognizes that he cannot get into a house through the front door, he is at the back quicker than the man inside can get there. If he finds both doors locked, he doesn't try to break the house down. He goes right on to the next house, and before you know it, he has dug a tunnel and got in through the basement...
...parents who send their children to college "just to prove there's nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker and cheaper to take a course in salesmanship. If you spend your spare time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend it in reading, discussing and thinking of things that matter, you will be an educated person...
Failing Magic. The heart of the difficulty was that independence had unleashed popular desires that outran the nation's capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...
Says Catcher Ed Bailey: "Hell, he changed me all the way around. He taught me more the one year I was sitting on the bench than I learned in my whole life; situations, how to go, what to do. He taught me how to get the ball away quicker in a throw, how to move easier on defense. I was probably the world's worst fly ball catcher. He taught me how to get out and get under...