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...White House steps the smiling, bareheaded Prime Minister was greeted by a smiling, bareheaded President. First in Kennedy's west-wing office and then over lunch, the two heads of state ranged through the world's manifold crises, lingering longest over Canadian-U.S. problems. Anxious to counteract the impression left by Canadians who argue that their nation should opt out of joint air defense with the U.S., Diefenbaker assured Kennedy that Canada "has not the slightest intention of being neutralist" and intends to remain an active military partner...
With last week's work, undefeated Ohio State stretched its winning streak to 27, the longest in the land, strengthened its position as the nation's top-ranked basketball team. When the N.C.A.A. tournament begins later this month, Ohio State will be a heavy favorite to retain the title it won a year ago. This season the rugged Buckeyes are showing such a marvelous balance of speed, stamina and shooting skill that they have earned a place with the great teams in the history of college basketball-San Francisco (1955-56), Kentucky (1948-49) and Illinois' teen...
...well-trained cadet or midshipman, going short of sleep during the holiday social whirl and plunging into a tough round of studies, may be a pushover. Most susceptible are young women who are going short of food (to keep slim) or of sleep. They usually have the severest, longest-lasting cases...
...York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, 42, has suffered some critical lumps (too much globetrotting, excessive body English on the podium), but ticket sales have been the highest in history. Last week the grateful symphony expressed its appreciation by giving the versatile virtuoso a new seven-year contract-its longest since the turn of the century...
...probably the longest, certainly the most intensely sustained metaphor in modern fiction, Greene has made the leper a symbol of modern man, and of the "long disease" of modern life. It is the leper's fate to die piecemeal: limbs, members, features deaden and fall from the still living body. But it is not on these horrors of pathology that Greene's imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis...