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Harold Stassen, if he does nothing else in a political career singular for its proportion of frustration, will at least have forced one of the most important policy decisions of this Administration. Sometime this week, as a result of his disagreements with Secretary Dulles, Stassen will be able to present his views on disarmament to the National Security Council...
Perhaps poets like T. S. Eliot (whose cat Macavity was a being of singular depravity) or those who are as sensible as Dr. Johnson (he had a cat called Hodge and he fed it oysters) or as mad as Edward Lear (who had a cat called Foss which resembled an owl) should be permitted to write about cats. A cartoonist like the late great Herriman, whose Krazy Kat spoke a wild, weird kind of New York Yiddish in Coconino County, Ariz., also belongs in this noble company. Not so Thomasina. Cats may be useful animals to have around any house...
...Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked what it all means, the young heroine says not to ask-and quotes Macbeth: "It will make...
...letting all flowers bloom is a serious and heretical mistake, and that the counter-rectification drive must continue until every "rightist" weed has been rooted out. Last week Peng Chen, the mayor of Peking and a protege of Liu Shao-chi's, stated the anti-Mao case with singular vehemence. "The struggle against rightists," said Peng, "is a major question of right or wrong, good or evil. It is a question of which wins, socialism or capitalism...
...total effect of the U.S. influence has yet to be evaluated. Says one American resident in Tokyo: "They are using us like gunpowder-to blow up the thick walls of old custom." Gunpowder or not, the Western influence, matched by Japan's own singular drive and energy, is giving the country the highest living standard in the Far East. And the living standard in Tokyo is higher than anywhere else in the four main rich and fertile islands of Japan. This, in part, is responsible for Tokyo's spectacular population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually...