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...eagle in the air and the whale in the sea cannot conquer the elephant in the jungle. Our overwhelming air and naval supremacy, even our bomb, cannot prevail over China's 700 million people. China warns it will not sit idly by if we attack, and made good a similar threat in Korea in 1952. Must we risk World War ITI to settle a pint-sized civil war in a feudal enclave 7,000 miles away...
...recommended: "Do nothing, but appear busy." His latest novel heeds that advice. Assorted human beings and ghosts scurry frantically about a haunted house in New England. One ghostly incident is followed by another-a flying tumbler, a fleeting shadow, a disembodied goose. Assuming that it is a whale of a joke to have a ghost sink an old curmudgeon's opulent yacht docked outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty...
Obviously, it is only a matter of time before the electric light is relegated to the underdeveloped countries of the world, and the really up-to-date thing will be whale...
...Louisville Courier-Journal noted that a local Republican office-seeker was blaming Lyndon Johnson for everything- from the mess in the Congo to De Gaulle's recognition of Red China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington...
...Whale-Fodder: When the will to prominence is traumatically frustrated, or when pleasing fantasies of rank are shaken by unwitting confrontations with reality, the Jacob-Joseph complexes may become aggravated, most typically in the freshmen or senior year, into the more severe Jonah complex. Here the undergraduate feels himself engulfed in helplessness. He sleeps through breakfast, but goes to dinner early so he may watch T.V. afterwards in his house common room. Directionless, he rarely studies, but thinks about studying perpetually. If he is a senior, he lacks a thesis topic. Jonah arrived in his predicament through running away...