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Arguing that all Lodge's examples of Soviet aggression dated from the Stalinist era, Hughes claimed that "under Khruschchev, Russia is changing." Khrushchew views future competition between Communism, and the West as occuring in the economic sphere, Hughes maintained, and is himself opposed to nuclear war. "Russia is not like China," he concluded, "There is no longer such a thing as monolithic, international Communism...
...Gentle Thrust. Monnet believes that the dynamics of the economically successful Common Market can work with equal success in the political sphere. The "Community character" being forged among EEC countries, says Monnet, provides Europe's "real unifying factor" (fédérateur}, a gentle thrust at President de Gaulle, who recently said that only an outside fédérateur, not European initiative, could bring about political federation. Some members of Monnet's committee had urged him to take a stronger stand against De Gaulle and his advocacy of loose federation, but wise old Monnet...
...beneficial effects of the passage of HR9900 will hardly be limited to the sphere of diplomacy, and the dismissal of the Bill's probable positive economic effects only indicates superficiality. G. L. Rowsey...
...baseball. Says SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: "Every handsome element of a baseball's design is there for a reason. Nothing is extraneous. Everything works. Without the figure-eight pattern of its hand stitching, a baseball would be just another sphere. But the pattern is not for decoration, nor is it merely to hold the horsehide sections together-that could be accomplished by a seam around the middle. The curvilinear design provides a grip for the pitcher, and when the ball is released with a spinning action, the seam gives the sort of resistance in flight that makes a controlled curve possible...
Cylinder & Sphere. Last fall the Louvre, anticipating Braque's anniversary a bit, gave him the only show that venerable museum ever put on for a living artist. It was the more appropriate because, early in the century, Braque studied paintings at the Louvre, copying such old masters as Raphael. He then painted for a while in the boldly colorful style of the Fauves (the wild beasts). But the man who made the deepest impression on him in his youth was Cézanne, who had given the younger generation a new slogan: "Treat nature in terms of the cylinder...