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...beyond for a much wider scope. In TIME'S pattern and practice, it is what the French call a tour d'horizon. At a time when the policies and programs of nations East and West are undergoing great if often subtle change, it studies the meaning and thrust of these new forces and explores the Gaullist question of whether an era is approaching that may see all Europe in one part...
...history, like Churchill or Lenin, as distinct from the merely "eventful" man, like Lyndon Johnson (so far) or Charles de Gaulle. "De Gaulle would be an eventmaking man," says Hook, "if he had the power." Yet there are many heroes who did not change events, or who had heroism thrust upon them through accident...
...thrust comes largely from the immensely profitable jet and turboprop aircraft, which now comprise 90% of the scheduled airlines' 2,180-plane fleet. To keep pace with demand, the lines hope to increase capacity by 30% before year's end. They have placed $1.2 billion in orders for new jets this year-and planemakers may have trouble producing them...
...score card is clear enough. Just a year ago, the victory-flushed Viet Cong stood poised for the final thrust that would cut South Viet Nam in two and assure a Communist takeover. Month by month, the insurgents' momentum has since been slowed, stemmed and finally reversed by the massive input of U.S. arms and men. Today, with 275,000 Americans fighting in Viet Nam and 400,000 expected by year's end, the Communists are finding that the war of liberation plotted by North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap is disastrously out of date...
...that was changing. While elderly rabbis dreamed up endless commentaries on the commentators on the law and books of wisdom, young intellectuals were turning socialist, reading Dostoevsky, shaving off their earlocks, or sailing for New York. Encouraged by his rebellious elder brother, I. J. Singer, young Bashevis thrust increasingly beyond the limits of his Orthodox childhood into the world of intellectuals and artists. He records with touching candor the delight he felt when as an adolescent he first wandered into the studio of a famous sculptor and discovered a stunning new society that honored the body as fervently...