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...Hook. When the story first broke, the U.S. was inept in its efforts to soften criticism. The White House, for example, seemed more concerned about getting President Johnson off an uncomfortable hook than about producing an explanation. Press Secretary George Reedy took great pains to let it be known that the gas was first sent to South Viet Nam before Johnson became President, which is irrelevant, and that it was used without his knowledge, which is inexcusable...
...Polly, Catherine Winn makes her debut in Harvard drama, and she is a welcome addition. She possesses that rare combination of first-rate acting ability and a beautiful lyric soprano, and she knows how to balance the two. Her sweet, artless Polly could soften even the hardest highwayman's heart, and we easily understand Macheath's impetuous marriage vows...
...borrowers scramble for funds to finance expansion. In Australia, where the Sydney stock market suffered its sharpest fall in four years as a result of the curbs on dollars, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies passed the word last week that he will ask Lyndon Johnson to soften the restrictions. Japanese businessmen, mindful that U.S. money has provided 10% of the financing for their postwar boom, also urged Washington to go easier...
...fiercely anti-Khrushchev rulers said all the nasty things about Moscow that the Chinese obviously wanted to say themselves. Since Nikita Khrushchev's ouster amid signs of a Russian-Chinese thaw, the Communist world-and its observers in the West-have wondered whether the Albanian line might soften. Last week came the answer...
Waiting for Noah. The surcharge on their exports was a jolting setback for the Commonwealth nations and Britain's trading partners in E.F.T.A., Europe's Outer Seven: yet the Prime Minister made no attempt to soften the blow by consulting them in advance...