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...seeing his subjects both as men and as writers, and, when the shoe fits (as in the case of Gibbon), as dullish people redeemed by works of genius. Quite clearly, Kronenberger's ideal is 18th century England, where style "was not just a matter of stance and stride, of paying a compliment or wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow...
...Approved a plan for sharing atomic information with 13 NATO nations, "a great stride forward in the strengthening of our common defense." ¶ Nominated State Department Career-man G. (for George) Frederick Reinhardt to be Ambassador to Viet Nam. ¶ Outlined his views on the liquidation of the Foreign Operations Administration June 30. They are: the State Department should continue to have policy control; the military should add supervision of nonmilitary items, e.g., Army cots and shoes, to the distribution of weapons; and a new agency, called the International Cooperation Administration, should be created within the State Department to handle...
Harold Macmillan, 61, Eden's successor in the Foreign Office, has long been regarded as the Conservatives' "other" expert on foreign affairs in the House of Commons. With a self-assured stride, Macmillan last week left his desk at the Ministry of Defense and moved to Downing Street, where sits Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
Across the U.S. last week, nuclear energy for peacetime use took a giant stride forward. From the Atomic Energy Commission, which two months ago revealed a $55 million project by the Consolidated Edison Co. of New York to build a 250,000-kw. atomic power plant near Peekskill, N.Y. (TIME, Feb. 21), came news that four more big public and private groups want to build atomic power stations in the East and Midwest...
...balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...