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...Sphere of Influence. President Johnson himself feels he has converted some of his critics. Columnist Walter Lippmann, for example, after many pieces advising a hasty disengagement from South Viet Nam, last week acknowledged that a U.S. military buildup in the area of Danang would help the U.S. in any future negotiations with North Viet Nam-which puts him close to Johnson's position. And L.B.J. could not have asked for warmer support on the Dominican Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order...
...Asia is not of vital importance to the U.S. After all, so runs this argument, the U.S. is not omnipotent. Walter Lippmann contends that Asia is legitimately the sphere of Chinese influence, just as the Western Hemisphere is America's.* That contention is questionable. Since the early 19th century, the U.S. has grown to a major Pacific maritime power; to surrender the Pacific to China now makes no more sense than surrendering it to Imperial Japan would have in 1941. With Southeast Asia gone, the U.S. would rapidly approach a point where it might have no foothold in Asia...
Thompson also supported the Pulitzer advisory board for rejecting the music jury's recommendation that a special citation be given to Duke Ellington. Although Ellington is an accomplished musician, Thompson said, "the prize was not created for music in that sphere...
London's first new daily in 56 years, the Sun, is not living up to its sunny billing. The purpose of the paper, announced Cecil King's editorial chief Hugh Cudlipp last August, will be "to stimulate the modernization of Britin in every sphere and to replace the disillusionment that followed our contraction as a world power by a positive faith in our future." But the paper was soon contracting like the empire. Circulation, which soared to 3,500,000 at the start, has tumbled to a depressing 1,400,000, only 200,000 above the last days...
...college governing body has some power to fix requirements for action within the College, as long as it stays within the sphere of college interest. It has no more right to force jurisdiction over our roles outside the College (taking political action in our name) than Berkeley has to force jurisdiction over extra-college action in an opposite manner (by refusing to permit outside matters to be considered on the campus...