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Caracas, 300 miles to the east, consumes the oil money with gaudy flamboyance. At night, searchlights turn the circular Hotel Humboldt to a tower of golden glow at the end of its cable car, 4,000 feet above the city on Mount Avila. Inside the red-plush walls of La Belle Epoque restaurant, the oil lawyers and the air-conditioner distributors hoist $2.40 martinis and down $20 dinners. Visiting businessmen snap on black ties and pad down the corridors of the jammed Hotel Tamanaco, bound for nightclubs where sleek performers dance the traditional, twirling, fast-stepping joropo to the sound...
...issue, TIME reported the reassuring news that the international speed and altitude records had been recaptured from the Soviets by U.S.A.F. pilots flying an F106 and an F-104C. There was a third-the closed circular course speed record-which in terms of military considerations was just as significant as the other...
...just finished reading the President's Budget Message on Tuesday when we opened the mail box and took out the mail. There was a letter from Philadelphia, and a circular from Time, Inc., and an invitation to have someone from the Children's Aid Society as our guest for lunch. We had already had lunch, so we couldn't invite the waif to sit down to a square meal with us, but it started us thinking about our mail, and then about the Budget Message, and then about the mail again. Fortunately, we had the New York Times with...
...gentle faith that all the sightless are under God's special bless ing. There is Adolf, who endlessly rubs his eyes so that he can "see" the spray of flames that constitutes his last childhood memory of the sighted world. Author Bjarnhof sensitively captures the circular, repetitive agony of a blind man's brooding. As he makes poignantly clear, the blind feel like nature's odd men out. As a former inmate says of the sighted: "They've kept us alive, but they don't want to bother with us; we're too troublesome...
...Foundation circular notes "Keynesian ideas enjoy almost a monopoly" in American colleges. The effect of this monopoly is that "pessimism, discouragement and the credo of despair have been skillfully instilled into the minds of our youth. It has been done with planned premeditation...