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...Tales of Temper. It all began when Olin Mathieson, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminum announced plans to raise prices of primary aluminum about 2%, from 241? to 250 per Ib. Two days later, the Texas White House quiet ly posted a notice that White House Special Assistant Joe Califano would meet with three Cabinet secretaries (Defense's Robert McNamara, Treas ury's Henry Fowler, Commerce's John Connor) to consider ways of selling part of the Government's huge aluminum stockpile. Though the notice said nothing about prices, the New York Times, acting on information from...
...first week of August, with the aid pledge still in limbo, Ayub attacked the U.S. in a broadcast for using the funds as a political weapon. He asserted Pakistan's "right to normalize our relations with our neighbors however different our ideologies might be." But Johnson's temper only rose, and finally a frustrated Ayub sent carefully trained guerillas across the cease-fire line into Indian Kashmir. His timing indicates that the United States rather than the United Nations had actually been responsible for maintaining that fragile armistice. When American-Pakistani relations broke down, Ayub could see no point...
...personality. He has a quiet charm, exercised mostly in private; few find him brilliant, but on occasion, before an audience he deems especially congenial or knowledgeable, he is remarkably illuminating. He gives the impression of being bland, and many of his admirers just wish he would lose his temper once in a while. He is a student of foreign affairs, not an innovator; a reflective man allowed little time for reflection by the pace of his present position...
Each sect has its own "reforms" from time to time and may talk of "unity," but that is like clipping a few whiskers off the sectarian tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact...
Case tries to spell out, in clear and simple language, the equally simple but far less clear ideology which underpins concrete SDS projects. The ideology, which he calls "democracy," seems to differ little in temper or substance from the "direct democracy" of the socialist left-wing in Europe at the beginning of this century. These men wanted "democracy from below" in the factories; SDS wants it in the slums. They wanted a sense of community in the factories; SDS wants that in the slums. And, like the pre-World War I radicals, SDS feels little need to develop a logically...