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...broken out in the hockey game and the scoring light is on. How did they score? Arthur rips the precipice plugs out of his ears. The game announcer is talking about stainless blades. Scott now has the revolver. Why is he pointing it at himself? The man on the brink has returned to safety...
...Dean Rusk has described this as "a formula for surrender." But since Charles de Gaulle proposed "a possible neutrality agreement relating to the Southeast Asian States," others have begun to espouse the idea. Said Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield last week: "We have teetered for too long on the brink of turning the war in Viet Nam, which is still a Vietnamese war, into an American war to be paid for primarily with American lives. There is no national interest at this time which would appear to justify this conversion...
...TIME'S cover, many of their names-Budenny, Rokossovsky, Timoshenko, Voronov-now half-forgotten echoes of an era when the U.S. desperately tried to believe in the good faith of its Russian allies. There also were the artists, from Prokofiev and Shostakovich to Evgeny Evtushenko, always on the brink of political disgrace...
...that crisis is to be recommended, but there is nothing like a real, full blown, to-the-brink international flap to clear the air of confusion. Crisis can, in fact, impose its own orderliness, washing away irrelevancies, clarifying issues in black and white terms, mobilizing national resource and purpose, setting in train a predictable sequence of action and reaction...
...Sentinel's pictures, spread all over Page One one morning last week, were all the evidence Milwaukee police needed to arrest John Allen Thomas, 44, a Brink's guard assigned to collect nickels from parking meters under a contract with the city. Tipped more than a month ago that most of Thomas' take was winding up in his own pocket, the Sentinel called in the police. Together they worked out their plan for trapping the coin pilferer with Conklin's camera. Confronted with graphic evidence of his guilt, Thomas confessed stealing nearly $500 in nickels...