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...next week. Essentially, the plan was based on the U.S. intention to work toward free elections in Germany and to stay in Berlin. But it offered some new variations on those themes: 1) postponement of elections pending efforts of an East-West German commission to get together, 2) some sort of gradual inspected disarmament in Germany if the commission makes progress toward unification, and 3) the possibility of adding
...asked. "Well," said he, "if I knew what frame of mind the other fellow was in I could answer that better." But the best new plus for the West at this early date was the frame of mind of new Secretary of State Herter. In Paris he showed a sort of genial, mellow, welcoming warmth along with known professional skill. "He knows his dossier," said a French diplomat...
...Heavy-set (5 ft. 11 in.. 190 Ibs.). "Lem" Lemnitzer. 59, son of a Pennsylvania shoemaker, has spent his 39 years since West Point getting jobs done and going away before anybody noticed he was there. Never the dramatic sort to pack pistols like Patton or a hand grenade like Ridgway, he was the workhorse officer who planned Allied landings in North Africa in 1942, negotiated the German surrender in Italy in 1945, organized Defense Department's NATO rearmament program (1948-50), commanded U.N. forces in the Far East (1955-57), was marked for the top job years...
...certainly some sort of merger of Radcliffe College into the structure of Harvard University would be a good thing. Administrative burdens should be combined together when possible, and the Radcliffe-Harvard axis is just right for such a combination which in any case, at this late date, must be regarded as inevitable; and when it comes it'll serve Harvard right...
...comment being "nonsense" followed by one of more exclamation points. Others, however, saw a "grain of truth." "Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity I get for being a commuter...