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Let them, if they so wish, combine in sixes or sevens or twos. But let them not call themselves Europe. For Europe is a territory extending from the Atlantic to the Urals . . . and unless the Europe we see for tomorrow is a confederation of the whole of the European continent...
In the U.S., the mid-'60s has seen the decline of the sex goddess as a type, and Hollywood seems not to care about cultivating any more. One reason perhaps is that young American actresses would rather be considered serious than seductive. Europe by contrast, is burgeoning with girls...
Behind bars in Trieste last week, unable to pay fines of $31,000 each, sat two Viennese truck drivers. Their crime: trying to take coffee labeled as fertilizer into Communist Yugoslavia. The two had been engaged in what has become one of the Continent's most lucrative enterprises. The...
Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society, may have at last explained himself. Plainly, his big-spending theories derive from a rebellion against his upbringing. For Galbraith, as he discloses in this amiable, slim volume of reminiscence, hails from a Scottish community in Ontario that seems today...
Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons in 1900-when Victoria was still Queen and Gladstone had been gone only five years. Almost immediately he became one of its storm centers. His views were often heretic, often changed-and often right. In his maiden speech, he bolted Tory...