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...guest of Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, and during his stay was honored by the King, who made him Dvitiyabhorn (Knight Commander) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown. Linen first met Thanat during TIME'S news tour of Asia last winter, when the Foreign Minister's vigor and his views of the U.S. role in Asia made a sharp impression on the U.S. business executives who were on the trip. Among Thanat's domestic responsibilities is the development of southern Thailand, and he enlisted Linen's assistance in the university project...
...Rumanian Folk Ballet, performing in Washington, D.C., danced even less: 13 of their 19 numbers were vocal or orchestral. The dancers traded on speed, unflagging vigor and, as a handout from the Rumanian Embassy advised, smiles that "always blossom on the cheeks of our people." In a spectacular number, The Forest Mountains, the men reeled off a series of backward somersaults over the shoulders of their girl partners, falling on the stage and twitching furiously, then leaping up for the thigh-slapping routine. For a finale, a panpiper let loose with a spirited version of Yankee Doodle, which brought smiles...
...assistant conductors of either the New York Philharmonic or the National Symphony in Washington. The competition was unbearable; indeed, as the pressure mounted, some of the entrants seemed a bit teched. One shaggy-maned candidate continually roamed the hallways, humming and conducting an imaginary orchestra with all the jabbing vigor of a shadowboxer; another, never without his trusty baton, sat in on bull sessions and conducted the rhythm of the conversation, cueing each participant as though he were a virtuoso soloist. Superstitions were rampant. One contestant, lest he be jinxed, ran off with his hands clasped over his ears each...
...primary argument with the article as a whole is its relative treatment of Holmes and Frankfurter. Holmes is attacked with vigor; but Frankfurter gets a half-sympathetic treatment. This is difficult to understand. However questionable Holmes's reasoning, the results were liberal: he wanted to uphold progressive laws. Moreover he wanted to strike down more of the illiberal laws than anyone else on his court, with the possible exception of Brandeis. It is Frankfurter, on the other hand, who did the damage. He served in a period when upholding progressive economic laws was no longer a question, but upholding deprivations...
...prolongation of the school years, argues British Sociologist Frank Musgrove, is partly a ploy by the adult world to keep the young out of competition as long as possible, for, he asserts, the "mature of Western society" regard the young "with hatred." With people living longer and retaining their vigor into advanced age, there is certainly less disposition by the mature to make way-although "hatred" seems overstating the case. Still, the diagnosis may yet prove accurate, unless the older generation keeps its cool about the young...