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Memos & Mice. As might be expected, hardly anyone agreed with anyone else. Columnist Walter Lippmann found the 'shakeup "heartening evidence of the President's uncommon ability to learn from experience." But to David Lawrence it was "a tragic example of experimentation, lack of system, and the evil effect of partisan politics on the efficient conduct of government." Positioning himself in the cautious middle, Columnist Marquis Childs wrote that the State Department is "an overblown machine that carries into the jet age much of the apparatus of the horse-and-buggy era ... Whether it is resolved by the changes...
...continuing battle between the Communist government and the Roman Catholic Church of Poland, flinty ideological engagement is the rule, but violence is not uncommon. Site of the latest clash is Torun, 110 miles from Warsaw, where Communist authorities tried to requisition part of the Redemptorist monastery, only to be stopped by an angry crowd shouting "We Want...
...Uncommon Development. Europe today is a tangled skein of alliances and associations, knitting the nations together for everything from the defense of the free world (NATO) to the telecasting of the Scots Guards into the homes of Athenians and Ankarans (EUROVISION), and the exchange of trade (EFTA), aid (OECD). and commemorative postage stamps (CEPT). Some of these organizations are not radically different from the old familiar alliances that the European nations have always found it convenient to form in times of relative peace. The drastic new departure that galvanizes all the others is the six-nation Common Market, comprising France...
...move freely where needed in a mass market-to the economic benefit of producer, worker and consumer. But set against Europe's age-old rivalries and stubborn economic nationalism, in which trade barriers used to be as fanatically guarded as national borders, the Common Market is an astonishingly uncommon development...
...Penn, Harvard, Princeton, Brown should win tomorrow, we'll be reading about another upset in the Ivy League morning. That's not an uncommon experience