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James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
...featherbeds are unlikely to be shaken out overnight. Also chronic are other rail troubles-the competition of trucks, the shift to air and auto travel. The railroads look to mergers...
...Chronic Affliction. How long will Kennedy's Telstar warning continue to discourage the speculators? London dealers expect them to come back into the market any time. The continuing drain on U.S. gold reserves (which last week dropped $90 million to a 23-year low of $16.2 billion) is sure to revive the argument-much favored by the British press-that eventually the U.S. will have no choice but to raise its gold price. The worldwide market crash has made securities less attractive and gold more so as a repository for spare capital. And not least important, once...
...meticulous politeness Sam Newhouse does not quite conceal an oversupply of nervous energy. He characteristically sits on the edge of a chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...
That at least seems certain. A chronic insomniac, who props his head on three down pillows, Newhouse spends the dark hours looking back over 40 years and ahead to however many years are left. "I just toss and wonder what paper I'll buy tomorrow," he says. "I'm not tired. But the nights are awfully long...