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Letters: Fiction-William Faulkner The Reivers; non-Fiction-Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August; Poetry-William Carlos Williams, "Pictures from Brueghel"; Biography-Leon Edel, Henry James: Vol. II, The Conquest of London; Vol. III, The Middle Years...
...West overestimated the power of Communism from the very start of the cold war. The Communist conquest of mainland China, Russia's achievement of a thermonuclear explosion only nine months after the U.S., Russian claims of rapid economic growth-all these added to the Communist image of vast and growing power. Then, in October 1957. Sputnik I struck the U.S. a traumatic psychological wallop. Alarmed voices warned that Russia was speedily wiping out the U.S.'s scientific and technological lead. The climax of the national inferiority complex came in 1960, when the U.S. public became convinced that...
...tribunal, which judged him "weak" but not overtly queer. However, admitted the report, Vassall's young colleagues in the embassy ridiculed his "effeminate" ways and called him "Vera." The passionate Pole soon guessed his secret, and life began anew for Vera Vassall. Eager to share his new conquest, Sig introduced Vassall to other gay types. "I shall never forget," Vassall wrote to an older man in London, "the many unusual and extraordinary happenings that go on here, which must come to few people." He did not apparently regard it as too unusual when one of his new Russian friends...
Despite the rapid conquest of the air by jets, the world's airlines still need a small jetliner that can fly short hops profitably and operate from relatively short runways. To fill this need, British Aircraft Corp. developed the sleek BAC One-Eleven. Last week, after a year of indecision about its plans, Douglas Aircraft-whose DC-3 was the classic pre-jet short-range plane-announced that it will challenge the BAC ship with a new jetliner called...
Harvard reestablished its claim to the Eastern baseball championship Saturday with a surprising 12-1 conquest of Navy at Annapolis. Powerless against the delivery of Paul Del Rossi and weak in pitching, the Midshipmen did not resemble the potnant favorites they are supposed...