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The House Un-American Activities Committee nearly eluded its critics in the Congress recently with a maneuver that seemed suspiciously secretive for so patriotic a body. Hoping to catch anti-HUAC speakers unprepared, the House leadership rushed a $300,000 authorization for the investigating group to the floor just one...
No Ambassador. Washington was caught unprepared. Five months ago, Joseph S. Farland had resigned with tart words about U.S. foreign aid and cheers from Panamanians for his own efforts on their behalf. Washington had not yet bothered to replace him. Now, at the White House, President Johnson called an emergency...
Thus there are many facts to support the Brazilian charge that the Peace Corps was sloppy in the selection and training of its volunteers. In Washington the defense is that it is a deliberate policy of the corps to choose all-around, adaptable types instead of specialists. If that is...
Best at Conversation. Pain seemed foreign to Jean Cocteau because it was in such bad taste. In the sweep of French life and letters, he was the incomparably protean, mercurial, acrobatic, magical virtuoso-"a one-man band," as he called himself. He was the eternal dilettante-novelist, poet, farceur, essayist...
It will not do to claim the Yankees were unprepared for the Dodgers by an easy summer in the American League. That has been the case for years. Nor will it be sufficient to say this was not one of your great Yankee teams. Yankees are good by definition; sometimes...