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...kind of lawyer's undertaking at which Dulles excels. Pulling together 15 nations, varying in size and strategic viewpoint from the U.S. to Luxembourg, was in itself a formidable achievement. So many inquiring cables and so many meetings were necessary that while all this went on U.S. Delegate Harold E. Stassen was reduced to postponing London sessions from day to day, simply because the West had not yet agreed on what to say to the Russians. Finally President Eisenhower had sent Dulles flying to London...
...reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes the whole paper. For, as Washington Post and Times Herald readers found during the New York Central proxy fight, when Newshen Malvina Lindsay bought one share of railroad stock and covered the battle from the viewpoint of a woman shareholder, some of the liveliest stories to be had are tucked between the balance sheets...
Your July 8 Letters correspondent, Mr. Eugene B. Vest, asks to what extent non-smokers like himself have their lives shortened by sitting in smoke-filled rooms. Let me reassure him-not two-fifths of a second. My 79th year sustains this viewpoint. Down the years I have never lessened my smoking, my average being half a pound of pipe tobacco a week and a packet of cigarettes a day. This would work out roughly in 64 years to better than three-quarters of a ton of pipe tobacco-disregarding some hundreds of cigars and thousands of cigarettes...
...critics suffer professionally from the viewpoint of the goofus bird, which flies backward so it can see where it has been. Unlike reviewers who guide their readers to new plays, movies and books, they can only reminisce about shows that have disappeared into thin air. By finding a way to remedy this built-in defect of the craft, a young (31) New Yorker named Steven H. Scheuer has built up the most widely syndicated TV feature in the U.S. press. His technique: capsule previews of the day's top viewing based on scripts, rehearsals and screenings, which he covers...
...Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras, the dominant viewpoint is no longer adequate for coping with reality, and men again grasp the full meaning of the alternative, thereby creating a mysterious Rennaissance. Thus the Alexandrine world was converted to Christianity; thus the Middle Ages were converted to Hellenism; thus the modern Alexandria will be converted once again to Christianity...