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...fire question after question on Dulles' failure to stand behind Stassen. The President was calm. He didn't think that McCarthy was really trying to take over the executive's responsibility for negotiating international agreements. How could McCarthy or anyone negotiate if he had nothing to commit? He didn't think that McCarthy's act, even if it were an error, was serious enough to undermine the State Department's efforts. Perhaps Stassen meant to use the word infringement (instead of undermine), said the President. He was not unhappy with McCarthy or with Stassen...
...ensuing four days of conference were not all smiles. The U.S. was mainly interested in getting France to approve the European Defense Community treaty (TIME, March 30). The French, reluctant to commit themselves on a treaty that is far from popular in France (although it is a French creation), insisted that questions concerning the Saar must be settled first. At one conference, President Eisenhower reminded the French leaders that they had an external as well as an internal public-relations problem. A citizen of Texas, said Ike, had a hard time understanding why disputes over the Saar, an area half...
...Angels is one more comedy that tickles conventional morality with a straw and makes respectability turn out its pockets. But it is much less ironic or satiric than just gloriously improbable; it is a fairy tale in which people commit murder as though it were Drop the Handkerchief...
...established tick, Dr. Philip explains, is so pleased with his situation that almost nothing will force him to let go. He will hang on grimly, even while being killed by insecticides. He can drop away any time he wants to, but if pulled roughly he is apt to commit suicide by abandoning his mouth-parts...
...Deterrent. It would do no good to enact still harsher punitive laws, the re-searchers suggested, because the people who are going to commit sex crimes are so emotionally disturbed that they do not count the possible cost. Unhappily, there is no sure way to spot them before they go wrong. But the courts are making more use of the state's "sex-psychopath law," which provides psychiatric treatment for convicted offenders. And (except for homosexuals) they rarely repeat their offenses after they get out on parole...