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...people as highly qualified as Spender to tackle the mammoth undertaking of his subject matter. Although an Englishman to the core, Spender's contact with the American literary scene has been extensive. As a visiting professor and lecturer on numerous American campuses, and as British editor for fourteen years on the Anglo-American literary magazine Encounter, Spender has been more than a mere witness to American literary activity for almost half a century. Along with W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice, he was part of the 'thirties foursome that brought radical changes to a somewhat stagnating English...
...People are a bunch of nuts," she claims, and in conventional terms, she is among the nuttiest of us all. By the law of averages, she should have died fourteen years ago. But she is still among us, experimenting and creating. Last month she was the cover girl on After Dark, a homosexual magazine, and submitted to an hour-long television interview with James Day on NET. But late-life activity runs in her family. Her father began a correspondence course in algebra when he was well past...
Love Affair. Ethiopia's rases (feudal lords) in 1916 chose Haile Selassie to be regent and heir to Empress Zauditu. Fourteen years later, when the Empress died suddenly, he was crowned the 255th Emperor of the Menelik line, which, legend claims, sprang more than 2,500 years ago from the celebrated love affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. For the next 44 years he ruled unchallenged, except for the Italian occupation and for a brief and abortive palace coup at the end of 1960. During his reign, the Emperor demanded all the obsequiousness due absolute power...
...Fourteen other nations are potential members of the club: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Libya, North Korea, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela. Though they are not nearly as advanced as the first group, they could become atomic powers by the end of the century-and sooner if they decide that it serves their interests...
...President's highest point of popularity, 68% in the Gallup poll, was last reached after the Viet Nam peace settlement in January 1973. Fourteen months later, in the wreckage of Watergate, the number of Americans who thought the President was doing a good job had dropped to 25%, and there it has hovered ever since. Can many in this 25% even be following the news...