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Merely Temporary? Indignantly, ICC members denied that the gleam of nationalization was in their eye, pointed out that airlines and motor transport are both presently subsidized in one form or another-but are still far from nationalized...
There are already 61 million cars on U.S. roads-more than one for each family. The old dream of two cars in every garage has become a reality for 18% of U.S. car-owning families. And. as other things-TV sets, dishwashers-gleam brightly in the consumers' eyes, Detroit's economists predict that new-car sales for the next few years will grow about 2.8% annually, not much more than the expected population growth...
...ancient, canopied bed lies corpselike old Lady MacAskival. Birds screech outside the window, ghosts roam the castle's corridors, haunted eyes gleam in the dark. In a pit beneath the trap door in the cellar lies a mysteriously deformed skeleton. "This Gothick tale," says Author Russell Kirk, is "in unblushing line of direct descent from The Castle of Otranto." He is wrong. Historian Kirk (The Conservative Mind) has expertly stuffed his book with all the claptrappings of the Gothic romance, but what he has actually achieved is a political morality tale. For all the apparent ectoplasm floating about...
Except for the warming gleam in Jacqueline Kennedy's eye, it was a chilly, depressing week in Paris. Day followed day of lowering clouds and slanting rain. Though large crowds gamely lined the boulevards to cheer the closed limousines that splashed by. Parisians were preoccupied by their own multitudinous problems-Algeria, the restive French army, the treason of the generals which led to April's clumsy insurrection in Algiers...
...mixture as before, but some of the salt was missing. Gone were the public snarls at some particular foe. the three-alarm shrillness, the staccato urgency, the distinctive touch of a man who once polished trifles until they sometimes seemed to gleam. The staphylococcus infection that felled him last fall-"Same one Elizabeth Taylor had." says Winchell. not without pride-hit the 64-year-old columnist hard: "I had a time of it for six weeks." Now in Los Angeles soaking up sun, he divides his time between the Ambassador Hotel and his office at the 20th Century-Fox studios...