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...heyday; curiosity about his character and career are minimal. Nevertheless, from the most unlikely source, Lloyd George has been accorded a highly engaging biography. Richard Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 72, has succeeded in a most difficult biographical enterprise -to write of a famous father without being a bore, a dupe of his fame or indulging in Oedipal iconoclasm. Part memoir, part history and part character study, the book is written with a_ wry acceptance of the comedy inherent in all consanguinity. Clearly, Richard Lloyd George was that rare wise child who knows his own father. F.D.R. and Churchill will...
...that he learned telegraphy as a young man in Arizona, tried working as a country newspaper correspondent, then moved to California, where his natural flamboyance caught the eye of another flamboyant journalist, William Randolph Hearst. Eventually, the two men formed a professional alliance so strong that Von Wiegand stories bore a "must-run" mandate second only to Hearst's "The Chief says...
...State Dean Rusk climbed Capitol Hill to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with a strong plea for the New Frontier's foreign aid program. Foreign aid is a perennial problem-How much? In what form?-to the point that it has become a bit of a bore to many U.S. citizens, although they have always paid the bill. But Rusk last week discovered that the Foreign Relations Committee was in no ho-hum mood...
...decided that the U.S. should accede to the exchange-but without giving it the appearance of official Government approval. He had both moral and political cause for his decision. The world already knew that the U.S. had sent the anti-Castro Cubans into the Bay of Pigs and thus bore a heavy responsibility for protecting their lives and assuring their freedom. Kennedy also judged-and accurately -that many Latin American nations, previously reluctant to admit that Castro was as bad as he is, would be outraged by his callous offer to trade human lives for machines (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...student entering the Law School is inevitably warned: In the first year they scare you to death, in the second they work you to death, and in the third they bore you to death. It is only the third-year's fatal boredom that will probably give the Committee any real concern...