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Onetime Interior Secretary Harold Ickes had the venom of a John Adams and the gossipy nature of a Gideon Welles, but, unlike those famed governmental diarists, he lacked the sense of standing witness to history in the making. Harold Ickes was primarily interested in great events in so far as they soothed or ruffled Harold Ickes. Nevertheless, The Lowering Clouds (Simon & Schuster; $6), third published volume of Ickes' sometimes fascinating diary, does make a contribution to historical accuracy: it should go far to correct the deep public impression that Harold Ickes was a lovable and forth right "old curmudgeon...
...Flowing Venom. In 1950, when Russia occupied the three Baltic states and then staged a dummy plebiscite to legitimize their absorption into the U.S.S.R., Vishinsky masterminded the Latvian deal and became Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs. During the war he sat in on the allied conferences at Moscow and later at Yalta, where Roosevelt asked him if he had ever been abroad. Vishinsky replied: "Not often. And the first time I left Russia, a funny thing happened. I went to Latvia. One morning there I woke up-and I was back in Russia." At war's end, he organized...
...Senator Reed's advice, for the duty of chastising a member usually involves the danger of cleaving a party. For this reason, in exercising the disciplinary discretion it was granted under Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution, the Senate has nearly always chosen to tolerate a member's venom so long as he has adhered to standard, clubmanlike behavior and not threatened to bring the Chamber to chaos. The successful censure motions and expulsions of this century have all gained steam from the fact that the guilty Senators disrupted the upper Chamber by waging scandalous elections or by failing...
...happy little band of British Laborites who toured Red China last month got a delayed kick in the pants from their recent hosts. The latest edition of the Reds' Modern Encyclopedia hit the stands. Its strongest venom was saved for recent Peking Guest Aneurin Bevan, farthest left of Britain's top socialists. Nye did not make the grade as a "Foreign Personage" (two who did: party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin and Canterbury's Red Dean Hewlett Johnson), but instead was ignominiously lumped with such "Foreign Reactionaries" as his old enemy in the House of Commons, Sir Winston...
Adventure (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Scientists milk the venom from a rattlesnake...