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...hold that Peking should be recognized because the Communists are in de facto control of the country, Dulles said: "The U.S. knows that the Chinese Communist regime exists. We know that very well, because they fought us in Korea. [But] let me say emphatically that the U.S. need never succumb to the argument of 'inevitability' . . . The reality is that ... a system which seeks to impose conformity is always in danger-and that results from the basic nature of human beings...
...OBSESSION OF EMMET BOOTH, by Martha Albrand (240 pp.; Random House: $3.50), is a psychological suspense story, and the suspense derives from the question whether Beauty will succumb to the Beast. The Beauty of the story, widow of a paragonish professor, is Miranda Page, who looks like something out of Harper's Bazaar but talks like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated...
Much of the current worry over the state of the economy can be crystallized into a single concern: Will the consumer keep on buying, or will he succumb to the notes of pessimism and tighten up his purse strings? By the healthy ring of the nation's cash registers last week, it was clear that the consumer has not suffered any recession jitters. The Federal Reserve Board reported that department-store sales for the previous week jumped 7% above the 1956 level, and that for the month ending in mid-February, sales increased...
...trading off hydrogen payloads, then the Army was going to have a hard time justifying a budget for a 1,500,000-man ground force and the armament that goes with it. The Army's answer was to lobby hard-on contradictory lines: 1) the world will probably succumb to an atomic stalemate, hence the U.S. will need a conventional army which for maximum efficiency will need its own air arm; 2) the airplane will soon be supplanted by the missile as a strategic weapon, and, therefore, so will the Air Force; 3) the Army should be allowed...
...Lido to Venice and through the Grand Canal (four miles), and nearly two since Napoleon pronounced the pigeon-swept square of St. Mark's "the best drawing-room in Europe." But the destiny of Venice remains constant, to be "the observed of all observers." The latest to succumb to the spell of the floating city is Critic and Novelist Mary McCarthy (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955), who has fashioned the spectacle of Venice into a handsome and intelligent mosaic of art, history and personal impressions. Complete with 46 elegant color reproductions and more than 100 photographs, Venice Observed...