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...thicketed Junior Senator Kenneth Keating, 62. celebrated their common birthday-May 18-by puffing out the candles on a pair of personalized cakes. Thoughtful to a fault, Keating came up with a special gift for campaign-bound Colleague Javits, up for re-election this fall: two packets of foot balm...
...Doctor's Wife," a young man is suddenly flooded with deep and impersonal shame by a casual insinuation that his tanned wife is part Negro. In a different story, a high schol debater pursues a girl disliked by both family and his friends to balm the hurt of a debating defeat. Both young men are the victims of a grinding anguish...
...Lonigan swaggered the streets of Chicago, Hemingway's bulls and men met with grace under pressure, Popeye had his will of Temple Drake, and Erskine Caldwell's degenerates roistered on Tobacco Road. Upon all this hardness, rawness and ache, a volume of stories descended almost like a balm in 1934: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love for life, no matter how preposterous. If it was writing...
Also creating jobs for U.S. workers are the steadily mounting investments of foreign companies in the U.S. Long-term foreign investments in U.S. plants and real estate have doubled since 1950, now total $6.9 billion. The Italian balm supplied by Olivetti has eased the pains of the U.S.'s typewriter-making Underwood Corp., and other European giants such as France's glassmaking Saint-Gobain and Germany's chemical-making Bayer have opened U.S. branches with U.S. partners. One British real estate syndicate-Boston British Properties, Inc.-even intends to rejuvenate downtown Boston, has bought a tract near...
...signs of hope. "The landings in Cuba cannot be called a successful military operation," said the Los Angeles Times, "but if they were responsible for putting new strength and determination into American policy, they served a most valuable function." From his Olympian vantage point, Columnist Walter Lippmann dispensed balm to a perturbed nation. Little countries such as Cuba, he assured his readers, "cannot pose a vital threat to the security of the United States, and we must not exaggerate their importance." The New York Times delivered a solemn editorial lecture: "History is not like a boxing match or a baseball...