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...President talks long and candidly about U.S. problems at home and abroad; he knows that they are there, and he knows that they are not going to dis appear overnight. He is optimistic about the U.S. economy in 1962, but disturbed about its longer-term future (see following story). He is perhaps too sanguine about the legislative prospects for his programs; he seems confident that his proposals for foreign trade, medical care for the aged, agriculture and tax revision will pass Congress without substantial change. As long ago as October, he had essentially decided that the U.S. would have...
...curtain sees the son's friend trailing the parents on his murderous mission. Playwright Archibald is wise enough to know that parents are loved and hated because they are parents and not necessarily for what they do and do not do, but he cannot achieve the emotional dis tance from his subject to move his son and daughter characters past love and hate to understanding...
...desperation, dial the number. A voice answers: "Hallo. Joe's Tavern." Ask if John Smith is in. The voice replies: "John who?" Say Smith. "You musta got da wrong numbah, buddy. Dis...
...pleading with the West to lie down before world Communism. One day last week, Lord Russell, 89, walked into London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court accompanied by Lady Russell, 61, and three dozen fellow members of Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, which advocates unilateral Western dis armament. Together, they stood charged* of planning a giant sitdown demonstration in Parliament Square, of "inciting members of the public" to attend even after the Ministry of Works declined permission for the rally, and of being "likely to persist in such unlawful conduct." Asked the court clerk...
...wars, the confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again that, better than any other historian living, he understands how to dis till the flavor of an age from its arts and manners. Like one of his favorite figures, Montaigne, he can "speak to paper as I do to the first person I meet." Indeed, he is often at his most eloquent when speaking of Montaigne himself, whose lifelong preoccupation with...