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There was nothing secret last week about the arrival of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Core. Belching clouds of black smoke from its single stack, Core moved 45 miles up a tributary of the Mekong River to President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital city of Saigon, docked at a wharf directly in front of the Hotel Majestic and the Café Terrasse...
...with reports on the world's most crucial news. Moving onward and downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York Journal-American for its "warmongering," its sex mania, and its "editorials by Tarzan: Me good American, you good American . . ." Peeling clip after clip from a stack of papers, he cited the A.P.'s mistaken report of Dag Hammarskjold's safe arrival at N'dola to show how inaccurate the printed word...
...book business is booming, classical recordings are selling by the stack, and art galleries are thriving. But Columbia University's Dean of Faculties Jacques Barzun gloomily contends that, in fact, the age is witnessing an end to Art. Says Barzun, writing in the British monthly Encounter: "The Romantic worship of art, having lost its purpose, heads towards self-extinction. The nations of the West now resemble those tribes that eat their gods to get the good there is in them...
From last year's inspection and a stack of notebooks on Europe that go back to 1926, Gunther extracts such conversational bits of color as the Albanians' name for their country (Shqiperia), Khrushchev's scholastic record (he was illiterate until his mid 20s), what Mr. K. and Tito have in common with Hungary's boss, Janos Kadar, and Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny (all were once locksmiths). His sidelights often illuminate the mood of a country more effectively than pages of analysis. Discussing West Germany's affluence, Gunther reports slyly that an elaborate marble trough...
...Stack will probably try to double in the 330 and 440, and the quarter-mile race between the gritty Yale captain and Metcalfe should be a hell-raiser. Bobby Mack of Yale, the fastest two-miler in astern history at 8:53.6, should win his event, but Tim Briault of Cambridge and John Boulter of Oxford will threaten...