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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger D. Fisher '42, professor of Law, has been chosen to head a panel that will study the effects of international law on crisis situations...
...literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel Eliot Morison, J. D. Salinger, Bertrand Russell, William Manchester, Peter De Vries, Ogden Nash, Gore Vidal. Issuing some 250 titles last year, the company's sales reached $11 million...
...embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch of capes came in," says Mrs. Barry, "he'd look them over and select the best ones...
Like the best of Fuentes' earlier books, Where the Air Is Clear (1960) and The Death of Artemio Cruz (1964), this one shows the influence of just about everyone the ambitious Mexican ever admired. There are echoes of Dos Passes, D. H. Lawrence, Faulkner, Mailer, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges. This time Fuentes also works in some sarcasm about the Mexican ethos, particularly his country's lively relationship with death and all its trappings. Mythology and symbolism are planted in conspicuous places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough...
...Senate tried to solve the problem last April when it approved a bill sponsored by Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D. Conn.) which allowed everyone who pays college tuition costs to receive a credit on his income tax. Ribicoff had introduced his plan in several earlier sessions, but it had never been close to passage before last year, when Senators began feeling pressure from their constituents. However, tax leaders in the House agreed with criticism which had been offered in the Senate, and the Ribicoff bill died in committee. Senate liberals had condemned the plan as "class legislation" since...