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...would like to undertake the projected Harvard movie, for which they were to be senior consultants. He accepted, and after one week's work--most of it up here in Cambridge--he submitted an outline to officials of the Program. It was accepted and now serves as the basic framework for the current filming operations...
...program that the President went to bat for last week adds up to a sweeping change in the U.S. conduct of the economic cold war. The program is new in the sense that it grasps all the varied foreign-aid operations and sorts them, logically, into a streamlined framework comprehensible at home and abroad. The program is new in the sense that the Administration now seeks to deploy the U.S.'s economic might not merely to stave off Communist aggression but to roll it back by enlarging the area and the appeal of freedom-plus-economic-progress. Moreover...
Within this interlocking framework, by Hedlund's painful testimony, Beck pulled his worst on a Teamster's widow. Ray Leheney was a union official and longtime friend of Beck. After Leheney's death, Beck first collected nearly $80,000 in assessments and contributions from union members to form the Ray Leheney Memorial Fund for the benefit of Mrs. Leheney. Then, as the trustee of the Teamster funds, he "loaned" the National Mortgage Co. $71,407, with which he and Hedlund bought contracts at a discount. After some $10,000 in payments had been made on the principal...
Even General de Gaulle has been stirred to offer a "solution" for Algeria. De Gaulle's plan: partition the country into ethnic communities (French, Berber, Arab, etc.) in a "mutation of empire" where the "autonomy would be great but the framework rigid," the whole to be part of a "French ensemble." Such a solution would probably have to be imposed, since the National Liberation Front demands recognition of Algeria's complete independence as the first condition of an armistice. But France, which has sent 700,000 troops to Algeria since the war began and is spending over...
Christopher Hollis' Study of George Orwell, suggests to me that Orwell's request may have been well-founded. Hollis finds in Orwell's work a basically Christian figure whose life "only makes sense within a religious framework." While this may be a correct statement of the way Hollis sees things, it provides an incomplete picture of his subject, who was use to calling the next world a "bribe...