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There were many Alwyns, and probably none of us knew all of them. Alwyn the critic could sift a ton of aesthetic sludge and produce a column and a half of buoyant wit, pleasure and wisdom. It is stultifying to honor a man with lists, but it would be remiss not to mention his TIME review of Nabokov's Lolita, a model of incisiveness and insight; a brief and scintillating piece on Henry Miller that tells all anyone will ever need to know about that writer; and a short story called Something for Bradshaw's Tombstone, which prefigures...
...Buoyant Gesture. One of the main subjects of conversation was a similar proposal by President Nixon. On May 23, he called for an international treaty that would renounce all national claims to ocean resources below a depth of 200 meters (218.8 yards). This marine wealth, he said, should be treated as "the common heritage of mankind." He proposed that individual nations be named by an international agency to act as trustees of the riches. Royalties from exploitation of the oceans' resources should be paid to the international agency, which in turn could use the income for economic assistance...
Though Nixon's plan was a buoyant -and unprecedented-gesture by a major world power, it came in for surprisingly heavy criticism at the Malta conference. Third World delegates heard ominous colonial overtones in the term trusteeship. Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder wanted faster action t? keep the arms race out of the seabed. It is now so easy to detect land-based military sites, he said, that the big powers will soon look to the "opaque depths of the seas" for concealment...
Despite the stress of unending war, Israel's economy is buoyant, though the peak of the country's boom has passed. Television sales were off one-third in the first quarter of 1970, but that might have been because the market was nearly saturated, with 250,000 sets in Israeli homes. Auto sales are currently down one-third, but there was a buying spree late last year in anticipation of new taxes. Higher income taxes and increased compulsory savings have reduced buying power by more than one-quarter this year and have caused some grumbling, but most Israelis...
...challenge, the Administration has made a massive and partly successful effort to restore calm and confidence. Both the politics and the economics of the slump depend heavily on mood. That mood improved considerably late last week with Wall Street's sharp, long-awaited rally (see BUSINESS). A more buoyant stock market cannot in itself right the basic imbalances of the economy. But if the rally is sustained, it will be a sign of confidence that the Administration's policies are beginning to work. Thus the national attitude would brighten rapidly-along with Republican prospects in November...