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...offering them continuity in assistance programs and an esprit de corps comparable perhaps to the Foreign Legion. Of course, the concepts of an international group administering aid programs implies a loss of national control which is likely to be offensive to American officials. If the new corps is to gain American acceptance, it will probably have to sacrifice some of its desire for continuity in assistance projects by hiring itself out to various national programs. What it cannot afford to sacrifice is its freedom from the stigma of nationalistic policies which currently create such havoc in American programs...
Howe won the fourth game, 16 to 14, despite a strong comeback by Emmet. After gaining the initiative during the best-of-five deuce, he capitalized on another Emmet letdown to gain a lopsided lead in the finale...
Proxmire expects to follow up his attack with Senate floor speeches aimed toward liberal Democrats, pointing out, among other things, that Democrats meet in caucus only once a session, and then only to hear Johnson enunciate Democratic policy. What the one-man revolution hoped to gain, nobody knew. But even Lyndon Johnson would have to admit that Bill Proxmire had turned out to be quite a surprise package...
There was still talk that stocks were rising because they were a hedge against inflation. Yet in the last six months there has been almost no inflationary increase. More important to market traders was the gain in industrial activity, and the flood of bright earnings reports and stock splits that accompanied...
...laughter of his guests had suddenly died away, and Boris Pasternak sat disconsolately at his own 69th birthday party listening to the angry words of his wife. "How many times have I told you not to trust journalists?" she shrilled. "They are only exploiting you for personal gain. If this continues, I'll leave you." Sadly the old poet murmured, "I promise you, Zinochka"-but nothing could change the fact that just as the ugly furor over Doctor Zhivago and the Nobel Prize seemed to be fading away, something new had happened to stir things up again...