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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn last week scholarly, white-haired Professor Theodor Heuss, 75, stepped down after serving his constitutional limit of two five-year terms in the largely honorific office of President of West Germany. By so doing, he added a page to German history: never before had the German people witnessed the spectacle of an elected chief of state peaceably surrendering power to his duly elected successor...
...Louis J. Hector, 43, most outspoken and independent thinker on the five-man Civil Aeronautics Board, resigned last week after 2½ years of taking strong objection to the board's performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector...
...read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind; yet every page is also immensely readable...
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury. This 616-page novel yawns for an editor's blue pencil, but New York Timesman Drury knows Washington from the inside...
...Fact. Having made his defense, Moore confesses that the finished piece under discussion displeases him. "It is simply too anecdotal, too sentimental," he says, and moves in the studio to a nearby figure, a more distorted yet far more powerful version of the same theme (see second color page, lower right). A woman almost bursting with the life of a new child? An earth bursting with spring? A moment swollen with the pain and hope of living? Were these what he was trying to convey in the figure...