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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead article is by Senator Javits of New York; it concerns "The Free Enterprise System in Foreign Policy"; and, conventional phrases at its start and finish subtracted, it ranks with Gilder's discussion of nuclear testing in No. 1 as Advance's most intelligent and interesting offering so far. There is nothing new in his suggestions of increased direct private investment abroad, or of government leading "American business away from a reliance on protectionism to a reassertion of its basic strength," but in his presentation of them there is something appealingly lucid that one finds neither in Committee for Economic...
Along the way, excerpts have appeared in at least half a dozen magazines. One publisher finally gave up trailing Ship of Fools while Atlantic-Little, Brown "has received enough outlines and notes to be able to finish it themselves...
...A.A.U. wanted him to go on a similar, month-long tour, but agreed to permit him to compete only against the Russians, then get back to earning a living for himself and his pregnant wife. "After we beat the Russians, I was told I had to finish the tour," said Oerter. "I appealed to Dan Ferris [who runs A.A.U. affairs as honorary secretary], but he told me that . . . anyone leaving earlier would have to provide his own transportation." Broke though he was, Oerter stayed behind in Moscow while his teammates flew off to Athens, was finally bailed...
...first semester of sophomore year, in 1943, Levin left the University to become a navigator in the Air Force. He returned to Harvard two-and-a-half years later to finish college, and stayed on five more years after Commencement to study for a doctorate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Sprung 18 months early for good behavior during a five-year stretch for income tax evasion. Racketeer Frank Costello, 70, left federal custody in downtown Manhattan, headed north to Riker's Island workhouse to finish a 30-day New York sentence for contempt of court. When freed on this final rap, the old bootlegger, whose take from assorted enterprises once approximated $4,000,000 a year, plans to return to his Sands Point. L.I., estate "to tend my roses." But the U.S. Justice Department has other ideas. It hopes to send the now denaturalized immigrant on a longer journey...