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...year Tokyo tenure,. Joe Grew found himself in just that posi tion, and his efforts to sway the issue toward peace were, even though un successful, a model of diplomacy at its finest. When he died last week, two days before his 85th birthday, in Manchester, Mass., Grew still symbolized the very best of another era of American diplomacy - an era in which ambassadors in trouble posts operated un der broad directives, were not bound to the clacking embassy teletype and made considerable policy on their own initiative...
...three of them to Coalman Miller. As a result, the oil companies will be forced to spend an extra $4,500,000 annually on tanker operating costs, another $2,500,000 to bring crew accommodations up to Australian standards and $42 million on new Australian-built tankers-in addi tion to channeling some of their business to Millers ships...
Even if giving out money faster than it comes in seems hopeless, the Founda tion intends to keep trying. This week it helped two of the nation's richest universities strengthen their international studies programs. Harvard got $12.5 million of Ford money and Columbia $10.9 million...
Remember Pearl Harbor. That ac tion was completely understood in the West as humanitarian and, if anything, more cautiously carried out than nec essary. The NATO Council formally backed it. In the "nonaligned" and Communist worlds, though, a well-organized propaganda effort made it sound as if the Americans and Belgians, not the savage Simbas, had committed the atrocities of Stanleyville. Whatever Belgium's guilt in the past, whatever the U.S.'s mistakes, it was a dizzying and infuriating perversion of the reality...
...library contract was awarded to tion, which began Monday, will actually be completed before the groundbreaking the Vappi Construction Co., and excava-ceremonies...