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The Best Bike. Until he became Premier in 1950, Adnan Menderes (rhymes roughly with trend-in-dress) had never administered anything but the family farm near the southwestern Turkish town of Aydin, where he was born in 1899-he does not remember the month or day. He was orphaned soon...
Sentiment for the small farmer remains as a hangover in American politics. The depression, when agriculture and labor suffered from lack of purchasing power, made this affection a political weapon. Even in good times, farmers do not have the monopoly power other industries have. No one farmer or small group...
For Radcliffe freshmen: "Better not be engaged until twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt...
Yet interwoven with the model girl who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled, who was equally adept on the violin or in a choose-up neighborhood football game, was another girl who emerged last summer. Three times police spotted Christine aimlessly wandering Westchester County highways at night...
He liked the Greek blend of reason and passion, the serene acceptance of humanity's lot coupled with a fierce resolution to better one's own. Out of genuine affection and twenty-twenty vision, Author Lee has fashioned the best of the few U.S. books about Greece, even...