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UNESCO, with all its highbrow conferences and talky committees, is missing the whole point, said Read. It seems to assume "that culture is a concrete material . . . bartered like butter or steel . . . already stored up in universities, libraries and museums, waiting, like corn in Egypt, to be distributed to the hungry masses...
...maggot-ridden yet, Hoffman went back downtown, inspected the empty floors in the Maiatico Building, ate a peanut-butter sandwich in a nearby pharmacy, and met reporters again in his old State Department building offices. A French reporter asked him for a word for Europe. Said Hoffman promptly: "The only reason I'm in this damn job is that I have good will for Europe...
This year Elliott is planting alfalfa, clover, oats and corn, enough to fatten 100 steers a year. He has built up his flock of chickens until they are producing 1,700 eggs a day, and plans to add turkeys and capons. Along with the milk, cream and butter from 45 Guernseys, the eggs and chickens are sold to wholesalers in nearby towns...
Mourned Jean Cocteau, poet, dramatist and conversationalist: "Sometimes after dinner with a celebrated group of brilliant minds, the talk in the salon over the coffee is about the high price of butter and eggs. Such a subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground...
...Senator (from Las Villas province) is a hard-headed deal. His name will help the Liberal-Democrat opposition in a doubtful district. For Batista, it is a foot in the Cuban political door. Because most Cubans have forgotten his brutal police methods, remember only that meat & butter were cheaper in his time, Batista is likely to win in a walk without so much as leaving Daytona Beach...