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...Scotland's Jimmy Clark, who needed a victory in South Africa to beat Hill for the title, almost got it: with the race three-quarters over, he led by 25 sec.-only to be forced to the pits when his grass green Lotus sprang an oil leak. Hill's victory (four firsts, two seconds, one fourth in nine races) marked the first time that a British driver has won the world championship behind the wheel of a British car-and Clark, winding up second in the final standings with his Lotus, made it Britain's year...
What is really disturbing in l'affaire Stevenson [Dec. 14] is the fact that something said in a top-secret council can leak out to anyone, including "Old Pal" Bartlett. Any time such a council meets, differences of opinion are expected, but when a final decision is made, it must be accepted and carried...
...Hove presumably rhymes with love. In a burlesque entitled "Last Drippings from the Great Certified Leak," the New York Times's senior columnist Arthur Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson...
Calculated Leak. One reason for the perfunctory quality of some of the press criticism is that, during two years in office, Kennedy has committed no serious offenses against press freedom. Even when he buttoned official Washington up tight during the Cuban crisis, the news still flowed. Said Press Secretary Salinger last week, defending the Administration's information policy during the crisis period: "I have not had a regular correspondent cite me a single example of where they felt they were denied legitimate information...
...Kennedy is guilty of no gross censorship, he is at least chargeable, in the opinion of his critics, with an array of annoying misdemeanors. He has betrayed a chronic tendency to regard the press as a personal tool of high utility. He has refined the use of the calculated leak, a common Capitol device. Among the White House press corps, his favorites may fluctuate, but its top echelons generally include newsmen who are also close Kennedy friends. And the President has become a past master at choosing the right reporter to loft trial balloons...