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Withdrawal from Black Africa was not nearly so difficult as withdrawal from Algeria seems likely to be. The Governments of the Fourth Republic, especially that of Mendes-France, had been able to let Morocco and Tunisia slip easily into independence. Yet one and one-half million Frenchmen, paying as much taxes as nine million Moslems, had not lived in Morocco or Tunisia for three generations. All that the liberations of Mendes-France accomplished for Algeria was to strengthen the resistance of the colons to autonomy for what they consider their country...
Kennedy had done it all not with any specific program, or even any very specific catalogue of faults. He had done it by dinning home the simple message of unease, of things left undone in a world where a slip could be disastrous. But most of all he had done it by the force of his own youthful and confident personality, which seemed to promise freshness and vigor. The U.S. had quite literally taken Jack Kennedy at face value...
...book's best piece is about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father...
...reinforced in the cover story this week. While the editors pat the New York Times' veteran Arthur Krock atop the head for being "the only ranking political pundit who is not yet wearing his campaign button on his lapel," they use a supposed profile of Sen. Kennedy to slip in several political low blows...
Thomas J. O'Connor, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, rushed to Cambridge yesterday afternoon for a 90-minute briefing session with his Harvard advisors and six hours later, repeating information pumped into him by the professors, handled a question-and-answer television show without a slip...