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...George. Like most of his earlier volumes, it records the first-person impressions of a man who not only lived through more than half a century of British history but helped to make it. And the Beaver has by no means reached the last chapter. Gratified by the critical acclaim accorded his latest work, he has already set industriously to work on two more. "Making a good book, that's my passion now," he says. "I dictate day and night...
...President left for home from Naples, he ended the trip as he had begun it in Germany-in a surge of acclaim. The Neapolitans choked the streets in tens of thousands; they cheered and they mobbed and they climbed all over the presidential cavalcade. The finale was a fitting reminder that as a public appearance and speaking tour, the trip was a success. Whether it would have more lasting effects on progress and peace remained to be seen...
...always accompanies major Communist conclaves; the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is meeting this week, and the Russians and Chinese Reds will get together next month to try to iron out their differences. And the President's proposals would surely add to the acclaim he receives on his imminent European trip...
...Peruvian of real promise. His father was a respected Lima lawyer, his older brother a brilliant electronics engineer doing postgraduate study in England, his family one of distinguished lineage. Two years ago, as a 19-year-old student of literature at Lima's Catholic University, Javier won acclaim as one of Peru's best young poets when he published his first volume, El Viaje (The Journey). In the world of the arts, he had many friends of the far left, but he seemed enough his own master to separate friendship from politics...
...take to do what Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. did? Of the original seven U.S. astronauts, "Gordo" Cooper was the youngest (36), slightest (5 ft. 9 in., 147 Ibs.), quietest, least known-and, in the opinion of many, the least likely to win the world's acclaim for a marvel of skill and courage...