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...defense of Viet Nam. Yet the dispassionate eyes and ears of electronic journalism did help bring into focus the complex and contrasting personalities of those who chart U.S. policy and those who challenge it. On that score, at least, the hearings' anti-Administration sponsors last week could only regret the cameras' unblinking presence. For, unlike the previous week, when the committee's star witnesses-retired General James Gavin and Sovietologist George F. Kennan-were convinced opponents of the effort in Viet Nam, the closing sessions were effectively dominated by two of the Administration's most polished...
Their approach was cautious, logical, austere. Their devotion to classic purity, to the sanctity of the composer's intent, spawned a new school of junior-executive pianists, most of them Americans, noted for their technical brilliance and carbon-copy sameness. Rubinstein, with more regret than scorn, calls them "bank clerks." They practice, practice, practice?and when they go onstage, so remote is their detachment from their audience that they practice some more...
...Chairman William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confided to a friend last week that he had not talked privately with President Johnson since last October. Said the Senator: "I regret that he has no more interest in my views than he has." Fulbright maintains that his decision last month to hold extensive public hearings on Viet Nam reflected no "personal animosity toward the President" but was aimed only at resolving "a much more serious, much more dangerous" conflict than the Administration will acknowledge. In recent weeks he has unmistakably emerged as the leader of congressional opposition...
Just before Christmas, nine years ago, the bulletin board at the Crowell Collier Building in New York carried a grimly humorous notice: "We regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus." Crowell Collier was folding its two mass-circulation magazines, Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, and dismissing its employees. There was speculation at the time that Crowell Collier would soon follow its magazines down the drain. Instead, says Chairman Raymond C. Hagel, 49, the company has "gone through a whole life cycle in less than a decade." Last week the company announced record profits...
...second issue is definitely worth buying if simply for the quality of the individual essays. I only regret that the Journal was not dedicated to one specific question as seen from a number of different perspectives...