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Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson last week told newsmen that he was working as hard as he ever had in his life on the selection of a successor to Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who resigned, umbrellaless, under an active cloud (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.). The new man, said Wilson, had to have "financial and mechanical experience." He had to be tightlipped, noncontroversial and acceptable to the Senate; and it would help if he knew something about politics, the Pentagon, the aerial weapons of the future, and had "sat next...
...measured against his contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...which contributes heavily-through Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, et al. -to the high decibel nonsense that TV calls "children's programs." indulged last week in a novel, if mild, experiment in selfcriticism. It made public a report of its Children's Program Review Committee, which took a generally dim view of the network's kid shows...
...word "pop" was an understatement. After slamming the door on more capital investment by U.S. companies last winter (TIME, Dec. 20 et seq.), Japan now seemed to be doing its best to lock out individual U.S. businessmen as well. Even for low-income businessmen the rates are prohibitive, e.g., a $6,000-a-year businessman with three dependents must pay $2,639 in taxes v. some $600 in the U.S. On a $20,000 salary, the bite is $12-680 v. about $4,124 at home...
...welded sculpture is also finding new customers. It is cheaper than cast works, and, by its nature, each object is unique. Collectors are now buying it to decorate Texas and Hollywood patios and Manhattan rooftops. Topflight modern architects-Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, et al.-are using it to decorate new library facades, chapels, and new college buildings...