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...State Dean Rusk, in his press-conference debut, reflected his boss's new caution in foreign affairs by turning back virtually all questions with the grey answer that the matter was "under study." Clearly, Kennedy was treading water while he found his own personal bearings. One top-rung State Department adviser 'backgrounded' reporters on the news that the U.S. had asked the Soviet Union to leave crucial East-West issues alone while the new Administration re-examined policy, or expect the toughest possible response to crisis. (To such nonsense, Moscow backgrounded a predictable answer: the U.S. must...
...dared propose setting up an opposition political party went to jail. Kuomintang officials congratulated themselves that they had neatly disposed of the opposition and expected to hear no more about it. After all, the technique had worked before-notably three years ago, when another political critic, the daily Rung Lun Pao's chief editorial writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case of Publisher Lei Chen (TIME, Sept. 19) was proving...
Life Is Time's Fool. There is a rough parallel between Shakespeare's day and the present. The Elizabethan view of man was being threatened by a triple revolution. Copernicus had challenged the earth-centered universe, Montaigne had skeptically consigned man to the lowest rung of the animal kingdom, and Machiavelli had argued that statecraft was a matter of the basest self-interest, devoid of moral principle. Modern man has seen Einstein throw a curve into the cosmos, Freud lift the lid on the cauldron of the unconscious, and Marx upturn continents with the doctrine of dialectical material...
...people are on approximately the same level economically and socially. They're scrambling for success. They tend to be new in the community and they're unstable and insecure. When they see someone else fail, in work or in a family relationship, they themselves feel a rung higher, and this is a great reason for gossip. I think socially we're flying apart-we don't meet heart to heart any more, we meet at cocktail parties in a superficial way. We value smartness rather than depth, shine rather than spirit. But I think people...
...Cornell team tried to assemble the most homogeneous group they could find, settled on 139 men, aged 22-32, who held low-rung executive jobs in a big corporation. Their type of work, income ($6,000-$10,000) and behavior patterns were much the same. They differed only in education: 55 were college graduates, 84 were high school only...