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India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru is not the first man to get bogged down in the morass of pacts, protocols, aides-memoire, memorandums and verbal understandings that spell out Western rights in Berlin. Nehru is merely the latest prominent person to take a reading-and to add confusion to the crisis. Rising in New Delhi's Parliament during a foreign policy debate last week, Nehru gratuitously declared that as far as he and his experts could make it out, the East Germans were legally justified in closing their sector frontier. Raising the question of Western access rights...
WAIF & SAFE. H. L. Mencken called attention to the native U.S. talent for "reducing complex concepts to starkest abbreviations." From O.K. to K.O., Americans have long coined initial-born words. But what began as playful sport has turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then...
...week's end Eichmann's verbal prancing was wearing a little thin. After an Eichmann foray into the minutiae of the Nazi bureaucracy's workings, Judge Landau snapped: "You were not requested to give lectures. Asked a specific question, give a specific reply...
Kennedy and Khrushchev kept their verbal guard high. Twice during the conversations, Kennedy tossed Chinese maxims at his antagonist. He quoted Mao Tse-tung as saying that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"; Khrushchev, straight-faced, denied that the peace-loving Chinese leader could ever have said such a thing. Kennedy also used the old proverb, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step," to make his point that a first step in progress on the road to peace should be made at the nuclear test talks. Struck by Kennedy's Oriental references...
...Verbal Aptitude...