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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reginald Maudling, 42, Paymaster General. The youngest member of the Cabinet and the man who managed Britain's luckless attempt to set up a Europe-wide Free Trade Area, Maudling is unflappable and a persuasive speaker, with the gift of making complex topics sound both interesting and simple. But he is regarded by many as incurably lazy-a flaw that limits his hopes. He is discussed for appointment as President of the Board of Trade, or for the proposed Ministry of Science...
...already pumped $470 million into CENTO's three Middle Eastern members in fiscal 1959. "Clearly, the U.S. cannot underwrite all CENTO economic projects," said Secretary of State Christian Herter. Imperfect as CENTO may be, however, the U.S. could not abandon it without shaking the free world's strategic position in the Middle East, and Herter also made it plain that he was aware of that. Said he: "CENTO will continue to enjoy strong U.S. support...
...shoo-in, and the P.M. himself could turn to other things. At week's end he turned up before the steering committee of the All-African People's Congress in Accra to deliver a stirring anticolonial address. Its theme: no African will ever be really free so long as other Africans...
...more prosaic explanation. There have been almost twice as many hours of sunshine this year in France as in normal years, apparently because of a high-pressure area in the Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage...
...civilised man or woman who cannot win some enjoyment from this book," wrote Havelock Ellis about Casanova's Memoirs, "there must be something unwholesome and abnormal-something corrupt at the core." Writing in the Victorian era, Scientist Ellis (Psychology of Sex) idolized Casanova as a free spirit, a man who had the courage to live life fully, and as a shining example of "adjustment"-for Casanova adapted himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that...