December 20, 1964

The mood among Western diplomats in. Paris and Brussels last week was described by one of them as “relief, maybe you might say, weary satisfaction.” The feeling in both capitals seemed to be that a certain amount of air had been cleared arid some of the realities confronting the Western alliance more squarely faced.

“ALIENATION,” a term once confined to philosophy, law, psychiatry and advanced literary criticism, has entered the daily vocabulary. Newspaper editorials refer without quotes or elucidation to the alienation of the slum dweller, the drug addict, the vanguard painter; popular fiction writers rely on readers to recognize the symptoms of alienation as a motive for adultery or murder. Alienage, or strangeness, is understood to be not only a condition ,(as of foreigners) but a process. As they say in the health drives, it can happen to anyone.

PITTSBURGH — The initial postures of the steehvorkers. and the steel companies as they began labor negotiations last week provided little basis for optimism.

Baseball fans in San Francisco may some day travel faster and more efficiently to see the Giants play than fans in other cities because of the “John McGraw” of automation —the computer.

LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo, Dec. 19—Congolese rebel forces were reported today to have recaptured parts of the African section of the northeastern city of Paulis.