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...with just a trace of scorn in his voice, he suggested that if the big powers could not really get together on a successor to Dag Hammarskjold, the problem might be turned over to someone else-the Africans themselves. "We, the smaller states, will produce one," declared Wachuku, "and will give him our fullest support. That is how we do things in Africa...
...Trace of Scorn. Like most other African delegates, he sees self-determination as an issue only among colonial people, not in such a place as Berlin, which he airily dismisses as a matter of power politics. But while most Africans carefully concealed their opposition to the Red proposal to run the U.N. by troika-so as not to anger Moscow-Wachuku spoke out bluntly against it: "We do not agree with the Soviet Union about the troika proposal. That would not work...
...cried Sullivan triumphantly. "It's tall! Sullivan had good reason to boast: he had given form and logic to the skyscraper for the first time. A readable and richly illustrated new book called Architecture Today and Tomorrow (McGraw-Hill; $17.50) takes off from that boast to trace the rise of modern architecture-and the lively rebellion against it among the modernists themselves. A reader will have to look far to find in a single volume a better play-off between the older and younger generations...
...carry nothing forward, but to get rid of all their inherited aesthetic and intellectual lumber; they have no public hope, for they feel soiled and guilty from contact with any part of existing society. They want to strip bare and dig down to a hoped-for bedrock showing no trace of an earlier passage of man. This is what Mr. Allen Ginsberg means when he says that man himself is obsolete; this is what Samuel Beckett and others are trying to show us on a stage where no responses are predictable or congenial; this is what Mr. Henry Miller...
...Soldier Dwight Eisenhower, no battle holds more lasting interest than a three-day conflict in which he never fought. Ike first visited Gettysburg as a West Point cadet assigned to traipse the fields and trace the engagement's moves and countermoves. As a World War I lieutenant colonel, he was stationed there at a temporary Army post called Camp Colt. In 1950, as a retired general, he bought a farm on the battlefield's edge. As President of the U.S., he entertained such guests as Viscount Montgomery. Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and even Nikita Khrushchev with fragmentary...