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...strange, reluctant commitment. As the small, far-off war grew bigger and closer, it stirred little of the fervor with which Americans went off to battle in 1917 or 1941. The issues were complex and controversial. The enemy was no heel-clicking Junker or sadistic samurai but a small, brown man whose boyish features and emaciated body made him look less like the oppressor than the oppressed. The U.S. was not even formally at war with him. Nor at first could Americans be sure that divided, ravaged South Viet Nam had the stomach or stability to sustain the struggle into...
Coal Bin Sessions. The ebullient Miss Rice publishes a yearly newsletter filled with members' adventures in impromptu music-making in far-off lands and chatty items about "an intradirectory wedding, bassoon-C to cello-D." Membership ranges from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...
Proof & Protests. The French contend that they were forced into the Cuban deal almost by an act of God. Le Nickel's main mines are in far-off New Caledonia, but a drought there cut the necessary supply of hydroelectric power and forced the company to look elsewhere for nickel oxide. Before turning to Castro, they tried to buy supplies from the 166,761-ton U.S. Government nickel stockpile, but Washington turned them down. Authorities of both Le Nickel and the French government buzz that the U.S. has another, more devious reason for boycotting Le Nickel: early this year...
...Dead. Paulus Johannes Tillich's long life on that embattled border shaped his thought. He grew up in that far-off 19th century world where stability and security were taken as a matter of course. His father was a stern Lutheran minister in a small town in northern Germany called Schonfliess; his mother had been a schoolteacher from the gemutlich Rhineland. Little Paul, who later remembered encountering the conception of the Infinite at the age of eight, decided at 16 that philosophy was his field and the Evangelical Lutheran ministry was the gateway...
That after-image haunted all Americans, in a week that brought successes for their nation almost everywhere save in the unillumined corners of its own big cities. The U.S. could look proudly to the skies, where the Gemini 5 capsule whirled in orbit; to far-off Viet Nam, where raw young marines scored the war's most notable victory against a well-entrenched, battle-seasoned Viet Cong force; to their own boundless farm lands, where record crops were ripening...