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Your April 12 article "Back from Limbo" mentions that Chester Bowles was regarded by some liberals "as presidential timber...
...conflict with his own destiny, asserting his instinct for constructiveness, conflicting with the destructive forces around him." But his search for motion-picture reality is earnest: he built miles of roads in Ceylon while making River Kwai, hired 16 elephants to haul the 30,000 cu. ft. of timber used to build the bridge. "One Hollywood joker," says Spiegel, "said that 'If you like Palm Springs, you'll love Lawrence,' but the point is that Lawrence was great largely because it was obviously not made in Palm Springs." To ease the tensions inherent in making Lawrence...
...back to Harvard. Perhaps Kennedy has forgiven Bowles. Or perhaps, looking ahead to 1964, he thought there might be a bit of political risk in keeping Bowles in limbo. Bowles still has a band of admirers among U.S. liberals, some of whom used to think of him as presidential timber...
...festering problem is the simmering racial hostility between the new nation's Chinese and Malay populations. Throughout the federation, the astute, prosperous, hard-bargaining Chinese dominate business, industry and trade, have economically far outstripped the rural, easygoing Malays. Chinese tycoons control North Borneo's booming young timber industry and Sarawak's vast, rolling pepper gardens; in Malaya. Abdul Rahman's government has complained that the rich, inbred Chinese business community has erected a "wall of prejudice" against ambitious young Malay businessmen...
Arthur Hill gives the crowning portrayal of his to be presidential timber, couldn't even become department chairman. He is as impressive in what he holds back as in what he gives. The role, like that of Othello, needs careful control, and the player must not let go full steam too soon. Hill is wonderful at conveying the pent-up pressure that finally bursts forth into "total...