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Problems of Wealth. The school picks students on the basis of home visits and academic achievement, rejecting about half. The torrent of money that pours into Kam pays all board and room and most teaching costs, although students still must pay up to $137 in tuition. Wealth clearly relieves Bushong of the most serious problem headmasters face, but the terms of his riches make other headaches. The princess' will, for example, specifies that Kam teachers must be Protestants (although the student body is 30% Roman Catholic, 15% Mormon, and the rest Protestant or unaffiliated), but a new state fair...
Admirable indeed was the restraint of Nikita Khrushchev. From the mean, narrow lane of Chinese Communism, Mao Tse-tung has not been content to preach heresy. In the past six months he has aimed a rising torrent of abuse at the anointed heir of Marx and Lenin in Moscow. Invoking every filthy word in the canons of Communism, the Red Confucius labeled Khrushchev a revisionist splitter and quitter who has betrayed the faith by eschewing hard, revolutionary action in Africa, Asia and Latin America, espousing peaceful coexistence, and signing the nuclear test-ban treaty...
Controlling the torrent of narcotics traffic into the U.S. is the job of a seldom-seen band of 295 agents bossed by Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Henry Luke Giordano, 49, a tough veteran of 22 years with the bureau and an ingenious undercover operative. Last week a House appropriations subcommittee released testimony from Giordano, who described some of the triumphs and perils of his adventurous colleagues. Items...
THEATER On Broadway AFTER THE FALL. Arthur Miller's return to the stage, after more than eight years of silence, is a torrent of self-revelation. The Furies who pursue the playwright are chiefly his mother and Marilyn Monroe, his second wife. Miller's version of the truth of these relationships is morally and artistically questionable but fascinating...
Actually there is no black magic to the classic French diplomacy so artfully practiced by De Gaulle and his Foreign Minister. Some acid critics sniff that it is simply a matter of submerging broken promises in a torrent of new ones. In fact, it is founded on the time-tested belief that "the ironclad rule of states is to give nothing for nothing." The French have never confused diplomacy with a popularity contest, and this is a point the U.S. has been achingly slow to learn. While the U.S. is busy building up "reservoirs of good will" around the world...