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Stalin, resentful of U.S. influence in a Europe that seemed ripe for Communist plucking, denounced the plan-and within a year of its inception, Czechoslovakia and Poland, both of which had been eager for its benefits, had fallen to Red putsches. In the Hotel Ritz in Paris last week, the U.S.'s most seasoned envoy, Averell Harriman, who was Ambassador to Russia during the last days of World War II, recalled before a 20th anniversary banquet a meeting that he had with Stalin in Berlin at war's end. "It must be a great satisfaction...
...Aviv, Israel's largest city, the reaction was much the same?and with better reason. Only days before, new Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, the dashing, one-eyed "Hero of Sinai," had said the time was not ripe to strike at the Arab forces ominously gathering around the Jewish homeland. "It is either too early or too late," he said. "Either we should have reacted right away, or we should wait and see what are the results of diplomacy." Since the choice was obviously to wait and see, when the first sirens sounded, most Tel Avi-vians thought...
Though aware of these difficulties, most reformers, especially on the campuses, are showing new enthusiasm and new optimism. They feel that ghetto activism and public awareness have at least opened the ears of bureaucrats to new ideas. The atmosphere, they are convinced, is finally ripe for revolution. As for the problems--"If I had all the answers," says Hill, looking up from a map of school districting in St. Paul, Minn., "I'd be bored...
...Pianists Eugene Istomin, Gary Graffman and Van Cliburn and Violinists David Nadien and Itzhak Perlman are among the performers who got an early boost from the award. Since the stakes and standards are so high, the judges occasionally pick no winner when they feel that the candidates are not ripe for major concert appearances. In some years, no competition is held...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. scotched weeks of Wall Street rumors that it was a ripe-and-ready takeover target by announcing plans for an acquisition of its own. Robert E. Brooker, chairman of the Chicago-based retailing and mail-order giant, said Ward would buy Los Angeles' MSL Industries Inc. for some $90 million in securities as a first step toward building "a substantial manufacturing complex." MSL last year rang up $116 million in sales of industrial fasteners, plastics and other products, earned $6.4 million-which is just the sort of tonic Ward can use. Suffering from tight pressure...