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Born in Paris, Anais Nin is a diarist and minor novelist. Her father was a Spanish composer; her mother, of French and Danish extraction, was a singer. They were separated and Anais and her two brothers moved to Manhattan where they were brought up by their mother. Anais Nin's...
The absolute majority was a double triumph for the burly, redheaded Kreisky-as Austria's first Chancellor of Jewish extraction and as a Socialist despite his descent from a prosperous industrialist family. His middle-of-the-road government has pressed for legal reforms, stressed the principle of full employment...
Other tart criticisms were offered by two of Johnson's White House intellectuals, the University of Texas' Walt Rostow and Brandeis' John Roche. Rostow said that the Pentagon researchers had exercised a "most egregious extraction out of context" of his "hundreds of memos on Southeast Asia." Newspapers, he contended, had...
No Easy Job. The trouble is that much of this treasure is not recoverable with today's technology at today's prices. The Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, for example, hold billions of barrels of oil imprisoned in shale. Estimates of the price that would have to...
It is with such appeals to ethnic pride, aided by legitimate grievances over discrimination against Italian-Americans, that Joseph Colombo has attracted supporters, opening chapters in New York, Las Vegas and Miami. Most joined the league for its efforts to curb ethnic slurs and stereotypes, and would be appalled at...