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...team that began to arrive in Saigon over the weekend should have a better chance than the old one. The Geneva commission, which fluctuated anywhere from a few score to several hundred members scattered in as many as 14 locations, had virtually no means of transportation and precious little cooperation. South Viet Nam did not sign the Geneva agreements, and therefore claimed it was exempt from ICC control -North Viet Nam did sign them but was no more helpful. The new commission will have 1,160 members located at 55 trouble spots across South Viet Nam, American helicopters in which...
...Johnson, as when Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared that "in another age, he might have been known as Lyndon the Liberator." Another old friend, W. Marvin Watson, declared that Johnson "was ours, and we loved him beyond any telling of it." Metropolitan Opera Soprano Leontyne Price sang Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Finally the body of Lyndon Johnson was borne home to the Texas hill country aboard the presidential jetliner that was once known as Air Force One (and is now called The Spirit of '76), the same plane that had carried the body of John Kennedy...
...bound to recede, and thus a relieved President may turn more conciliatory as he leads the U.S. into the complex postwar world. Said Nixon in his address: "Let us again learn to debate our differences with civility and decency, and let each of us reach out for that precious quality government cannot provide-a new level of respect for the rights of one another." Indeed, government cannot provide that. But a President could-by setting a tone and an example...
...states flatly: "The Third World needs not so much political leaders, a common species, as something far more rare and precious: critics." The essays he has collected here may constitute their own persuasive evidence in behalf of Octavio Paz's priorities. The author once wrote a literary want ad describing the need for "an Indonesian Swift or an Arab Voltaire." He pretty well fills that job himself...
ERIC ROHMER'S WORLD is a precious one. In Chloe in the Afternoon even the streets of Paris have been cleansed of the ugly, the old, the poor. It is a bourgeois landscape, regular and unperturbed, all glass, gilded comfort and leisure...