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Then the G.O.P. had some sober second thoughts. To Honolulu as presidential representative had flown Lyndon Johnson. The Vice President, describing Berlin as the most serious challenge "on the darkened world scene," called on both parties to unite behind President Kennedy's foreign policy, "especially when our Communist adversary is strong, united, disciplined and on the march." For the sake of world opinion, the Republicans joined in a unanimous vote of support for the President's Berlin policy. In the same spirit, they dropped their plan to embarrass Democrats further over civil rights. "We had a choice," explained...
...worst had come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
...disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention policy of Britain and France and the arms Embargo Act in the U.S. leaving the door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have won it for the Republicans, had he wanted to, but his policy was to prolong the conflict rather than win it at the price of involvement in a general...
...Pietro Cesti (1623-69), otherwise known as Father Antonio, contributed to its splendor in flamboyant fashion. Renowned for his unfriarly frolics (a partiality toward wine and the wives of his benefactors), he was unfrocked* and dismissed from the court of the Medici in Florence for "reprehensible conduct." In more sober moods he reputedly wrote 100 operas, many of them tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence of 300 years...
...Better Man. Some observers ventured beyond such neutral ground, with cautious kudos for the presidential stance in the international batting box. The Vienna meeting, said the Boston Traveler, "has done much to raise American prestige abroad, to strengthen the Western Alliance, and probably to jolt Premier Khrushchev into a sober reassessment of our determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full diplomatic intercourse...