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...rehearsing his invective for the big Party Congress, Nikita Khrushchev chose U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith as target for Moscow's crudest and weirdest verbal blockbuster of the week. What angered the Russian was Republican Smith's Sept. 21 Senate speech chiding Democrat John F. Kennedy for "turning to emphasis on conventional weapons" when the U.S. needs to increase its nuclear superiority over Russia. Khrushchev's reply went to Britain's former Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell and 58 other Labor M.P.s who had urged Russia to stop nuclear testing...
...private Buckley Schools, which stress self-discipline and no-nonsense learning. In the eleventh grade, he got an A average in science-rich studies, eased to a high B (and honors in Russian) in his senior year. He scored high on College Board aptitude tests: 634 on the verbal portion, 711 on the math portion (out of a possible 800). This summer he gobbled science fiction even at meals ("I couldn't fight it," says his mother), downed books on existentialism, extrasensory perception and Zen Buddhism. He also got hooked on jazz and played daily sand-lot baseball...
David Berman's rather bulky portfolio of verse represents no appreciable growth in technique or feeling over his last published collection. Verbal pretension and technical sloppiness clutter passage after passage. Berman's poetry has the appearance of craftsmanship, but the shimmer of alliteration and assonance disguises a formless ooze of lush words...
Tunisia's Mongi Slim took the floor to appeal desperately for U.S. support. But as a friend of both Tunisia and France, the U.S. could not afford to take sides. Instead, Tunisia got the stifling verbal embrace of the Soviet Union. Sounding trumpet calls against "Western imperialism," Russian Delegate Platon Morozov soon left Tunisia and its problems far behind. With a rattling of nuclear rockets, Morozov threatened instant erasure to those countries that continue to permit the establishment of U.S., British and French bases...
Power of the Weak. Thanks to such political divisions, the official conference agenda is cautiously uncomplicated and uncontroversial: "exchange of views on the international situation" and "strengthening peace and security." Western experts guess that if the official agenda is observed, the West may expect nothing more than one more verbal flogging for "imperialism" and colonialism, along with exhortations for everyone, especially the West, to disarm completely-and, of course, to give aid generously. Hopes for any Afro-Asian condemnation of Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe are relatively slim. Nehru, for one, tends to pass over irritating disputes as a sort...