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...much easier in 1646. That year saw the printing of the first children's book in America, and a shopping parent could bring home to his child a copy of John Cotton's Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment. A question-and-answer catechism, written by the grandfather of Boston's famed hell-fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ...
...John Cotton's Spiritual Milk, the message was to be good or face damnation. One hundred years later, it was still menacing enough (in one story, when a little girl went out on a forbidden walk, she was promptly kicked by a horse and crippled for life). Today the moralizing is less obvious, but it is still there...
AMERICA WILL CHANGE HER POLICY, said an eight-column head in Cairo's official newspaper Al Gumhuria. Other Egyptian papers burbled in delight over "indications" of a Washington turnabout. The U.S., it was reported, had resumed its Egyptian aid program, was again buying Egyptian cotton, had released $3,000,000 of Egypt's frozen funds, had agreed to a special shipment of Salk polio vaccine-was, in short, about to go all out for Nasser. "It's a great victory for Gamal," said a Cairo news vendor...
Actually, the U.S. was doing nothing about Egypt that it had not been doing all along. The touted resumption of American aid was merely the continued honoring of commitments made before Suez. CARE negotiations remained stalled, as they had been. The U.S. has never stopped buying Egyptian cotton, or releasing in installments the frozen funds (originally about $40 million), chiefly for the expenses of the Egyptian embassy in Washington and the Egyptian U.N. delegation. What was significant in the sudden rush of wishful Egyptian thinking was that Gamal Abdel Nasser, though he had just accepted a $175 million Soviet loan...
...only the trenchcoat model, but a variety of raincoats of Egyptian imported (via Britain) cotton are available to the well-dressed man this year. (Macintosh is the brand name to remember). This is of particular interest to the warm-blooded college man who tends to wear his raincoat for a year-round coat...