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...debut as a goal," declares Brenda, "but perspective is more important. I want my daughter to have a full life." Recently ill, the former Glamour Girl admits that her own perspective was improved by two years of psychoanalysis. "I'm very happy now-and looking forward, not backward...
...open for days; they wore out several batteries listening to Vatican Radio, which unnerved everybody by broadcasting occasional bulletins in Swahili. Just 60 seconds after the Pope's death, U.P.I, carried a flash to all its U.S. clients: POPE DEAD. A.P., whose man on the phone tipped over backward in his swivel chair when he heard the words "E morte!" from the Vatican pressroom, still managed to fire off a bulletin two minutes later...
...Russians to reciprocate." He cited Russian participation in the Atoms-for-Peace conference of 1955 and the opening of Soviet non-military nuclear research facilities as indications that the Russians might abandon secrecy if the United States did so first. "The Russians do not want to appear backward or stubborn," Teller observed. "Their scientists enjoy talking about their advances...
...Stephen Jencks and Herbert Denton reveal not one clue that it was the historical relationship of white American society to the Negro which has left the latter little more than the particularistic fact of his blackness, his Negritude--and all this implies--as a means to grapple with his backward and demoralized status in society. As far as I am concerned, and perhaps other Negroes as well (though I accept Riesman's point in a recent letter to Commentary that in such discussions as this it is perhaps best to speak for oneself) this is a pathetic addition of insult...
...widest conception of national interest, the Liberals must do something to satisfy restless French Canada. They are in a better position to do so than the Tories. Under the new provincial leadership of Liberal Premier Jean Lesage. Quebec is at last emerging from a corrupt political history, a backward church-dominated educational system, and an unadventuresome economic structure...