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Main reasons for Gott's travels are to keep correspondents in touch with the editors' thinking, to meet the statesmen and other leaders with whom correspondents deal locally, and to go over such problems as communications difficulties (censorship in some areas), antiquated transportation, currency exchanges and quick visas. This means busy, schedule-filled days. Of this type of travel, Gott says: "It's stimulating...
...postulated love (Eros) and a death instinct (Thanatos). Dr. Ostow made a different proposal. Instead of changing psychoanalysis again to meet the threat of World War III, he suggested that Freud's amended theory be applied to improve mankind so as to ensure peace. His recommendation: analyze all statesmen...
...Israel now prevails among American Jews. There is a fanatical certainty abroad that there is only one truth and that Israel is the sole custodian of it. No distinction is made between the Jews of the world and Israel, and not even between the Israeli government and Israel. Israeli statesmen and their policies are assumed to be inviolate and above criticism. There is a frightening intolerance of opinions differing from those of the majority, a complete disregard of reason, and a yielding to the emotions of a stampeding herd...
...genuine change on the part of the Russians. But the Russians had all but declared in advance that they had no intention of settling anything at the second Geneva meeting. They had got what they wanted at the first Summit meeting-a finding, brought in not by the statesmen but by the public, that the world did not stand in danger of war. In effect, they had got "peace" merely by declaring it. They felt no need or compulsion to bargain further...
...Soviet Russia are racing to launch the first rocket missile into interplanetary space. But if the statesmen paid more attention to television, they would realize that space adventures are strictly for the birds. Even durable Captain Video has been downgraded to a supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...