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...Columnist Walter Lippmann, for one, thinks that an honorable and perhaps successful way out lies in Charles de Gaulle's proposal for neutralization. Though never spelled out by De Gaulle, this would mean a negotiated peace under auspices of the U.N. or of a renewed Geneva conference, to strengthen by international guarantees the vows made-and since broken-in the original 1954 Indo-China settlement. This possibility is backed by Senators Mike Mansfield, George McGovern and others, who see defeat and humiliation for the U.S. as the only fruits of continued fighting in South Viet...
...stepped in to refinance the company, last week picked the first man outside the Olivetti family ever to head it. He is Bruno Visentini, 54, the vice president of Italy's huge, state-owned industrial holding company, I.R.I. (TIME, March 27). Visentini's main task is to strengthen the position of Olivetti's U.S. subsidiary, Underwood Corp., which has not kept up with its U.S. competitors. In addition, Olivetti (1963 sales: $360 million) is troubled by import restrictions in its sizable Latin American market. Visentini, a lawyer well-connected with Italy's center-left government, will...
Mounting Mayhem. U.S. money alone cannot strengthen the Vietnamese will to fight-or counteract the rising, deliberate Red policy to break that will through terror. For almost a month, the rate of Viet Cong terrorist "incidents" has been up from an average 300 to 400 per week to 500 to 700, with a higher-than-usual percentage consisting of seemingly senseless mayhem. The Reds have mined and fired on peasant-loaded buses, ambushed three-wheeled Lambretta motor scooters, which are a favorite peasant means of conveyance, and unmercifully harassed junk families on canals and rivers. Last month the Reds burned...
Probably the most important recommendations of the Gen Ed Committee, however, are its proposals to strengthen the hand of the Gen Ed Committee in its battle to staff its courses. Whether or not its recommendations will succeed, if they are adopted, is an open question, but they combine the carrot of sabbaticals and the stick of quotas into a system of persuasion and coercion more extensive than anything yet tried. It is questionable, however, how they will offset the idea in the minds of junior Faculty members that their promotion will depend more upon their work in their departments then...
Currently Dean of Graduate and Professional Women, Mrs. Kerby-Miller will be academic vice-president while Mrs. Bunting serves a one-year term on the Atomic Energy Commission; she said in an interview Tuesday that she hopes to strengthen all of Mrs. Bunting's programs, particularly the House system and the advisory plan...