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...writing about cosmic affairs after 14 years of criticizing radio and TV. but has lately begun to feel rather uncomfortable on cloud nine. Said the Trib's new Paris-based columnist: "I've lived in New York for 25 years. It doesn't stir me any more. I go to work and stare out the window. Not an idea in my skull...
Adolf Eichmann was dead and his ashes thrown into the Mediterranean, but his execution will probably stir debate for years to come. The first critical postmortem came from Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber. All along, Buber had been opposed to the trial because it cast Israel in the role of both accuser and judge (he would have preferred an international tribunal). He also felt that the death penalty was wrong because no punishment could really expiate the Nazi crimes. Eichmann's execution, explained Buber last week, may only give Germany's youth an easy way of escaping the guilt...
...level off the peaks of boom and the valleys of recession-a drive started under Eisenhower and continued by Kennedy-has been overly successful, and that the U.S. has sacrificed too much growth for stability. (During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy used to argue that way.) One way to stir faster expansion is to encourage increased corporate spending by means of a tax cut. But pessimists hold that if the President waits until next January to apply his cuts, they may come too late to beget a boom, and be useful only to soften the effects of a recession...
Wallace's opponent, State Senator Ryan deGraffenried, 37, assured the electorate that he was as good a segregationist as the next man. But Wallace's intemperance, he charged, would only stir up violence and chaos. Cried he: "It's been the same pattern in every state where you have a loudmouth, rabble-rousing Governor. They have brought the walls of segregation tumbling down on their heads...
...fine that we can stir the thing up again, but let's do it with scientific facts, and by talking to people, and not with smokescreens in the Scientific American, the Boston Traveler, or the CRIMSON...