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Smith proposed in effect that the U.S. send troops to occupy the prosperous 235-mile-long island. Strategically the most important piece of real estate still outside Western democracy's Pacific Ocean frontier, Formosa lies on the line between three potential sea-air bastions: Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines (see map). In the hands of an Asia-based enemy it would menace U.S. communication lines. But it is a gun which can point both ways. The U.S. could point it at Communist China...
Bernard DeVoto is a historian and ex-Harvard lecturer who makes his real money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called it the "blackout communique." It was known, however, that the "strategic concepts" had settled a long-standing controversy: they called for defense of the West on the Western European plain-not from behind the Pyrenees or the far side of the English Channel...
...Real American." Now that he has a permanent home in which he can polish old works and plan new ones, Russian-born Choreographer Balanchine, a U.S. citizen for ten years, hopes he is on the road to a permanent American ballet company, something like Britain's national ballet, the Sadler's Wells (TIME, Oct. 17). One step in the direction of making it a "real American" ballet was the addition to the staff this season of bright, witty, U.S.-born Choreographer Jerome (Fancy Free) Robbins...
...Story of Seabiscuit (Warner) offers impeccable Technicolored performances by several horses, and some old newsreel clips of the real Seabiscuit's most spectacular races. Also rans: Barry Fitzgerald as the horse's jabbering trainer, and Shirley Temple, insufficiently disguised by a brogue. Loaded with the bipeds' lame Irish humor and a desultory romance, the picture carries a top handicap which it never overcomes...