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Eden picked a critical time for his return to public life. In coming months Britain must reach decisions on two troublous issues: the possibility of war over Berlin and the complex problem of membership in Europe's Common Market (TIME, July 7). Even his sharpest critics concede that Eden has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of foreign policy over three decades. Eden's plans for German reunification still influence Foreign Office policymakers, and Macmillan occasionally drops in on Eden at his country home to seek his views. The two do not always agree-last month, in his first major speech...
Trouble from the South. The act is under the sharpest attack from the protectionists since World War II. Last week 18 Senators joined to co-sponsor a bill, dropped in the hopper by New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, that would oblige the President to accept every tariff-boosting recommendation put forward by the U.S. Tariff Commission. (Presidents Truman and Eisenhower rejected nearly two-thirds of the commission's proposed tariff increases.) Alarmed, New York's Republican Jacob Javits prepared a counterattack urging the Administration to take the initiative in fighting to uphold reciprocal trade...
Strange Shriek. As a trained singer himself (even when he was 93 he used to quaver through the scores of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov or Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos), Shaw saved some of his sharpest shafts for vocalists. Of the famed Italian Tenor Enrico Tamberlik, appearing in Rossini's Otello, he wrote: "He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd. For the C sharp in the celebrated duet L'ira d'avverso fato, he substituted a strange description of shriek at about that pitch. The audience, ever appreciative...
...Swing Man. The split is sharpest in cases involving Communists. The Black-Warren wing usually supports the constitutional rights of the individual, while the Frankfurter group upholds the will of the community, i.e., the laws passed by Congress in the interest of national security. Swinging between those two groups and casting the decisive vote -as he did on last week's 5-to-4 decisions curbing the Communists-is the newest Justice, Potter Stewart, 46. Says one of Washington's top trial lawyers: "You go up to argue before the court now, and you just talk to Stewart...
...signed Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment before he had a word on paper, with the pitch that he wanted to make a film about "that grand old American folk ritual, the afternoon shack-up." In Co-Writer-Producer-Director Wilder's hands, the result was one of the sharpest social satires ever filmed. And Hollywood's new lack of inhibitions has made possible other excellent pictures (Elmer Gantry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and some that are at least artistically ambitious (Shadows, The Savage Eye). But these are the exceptions. At the other end of the scale...