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...United, and American, the airlines that specialize in long-haul, nonstop flights, will not change their present half-fare plans...
America has been fifty years late in establishing a national archive, and its success is far from certain, if only taking into account the diverse goals of the seventeen-man staff of the Institute. Nonetheless, Kahlenberg is as optimistic as he is resigned to a long haul: asked if the archive would include any foreign film, he laughed and said resignedly, "We only have 32,000 American films to get first."Erich von Stroheim...
...have long staged their own reprisals against enemies foreign and domestic, as in their refusal in 1964 to load U.S. wheat onto Russian-bound freighters. Now Dr. Benjamin Specie, 64, baby doctor and Viet Nam dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...
...faithful, but he is too shrewd to rock a setup that makes him look good. The truth, says Tarsis, is that these socialist vacations on the regime leave plenty of opportunity for grafters, people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those who haul in the tips of the big spenders. Simply by meeting Moscow's quota and more, Lipyan pleases his masters and has enough left over to make him that theoretically impossible anachronism: a happy capitalist in a proletarian society...
...Club" continued to protect Philby, even when, in 1962, his subversion could no longer be denied. Rather than haul him in to confess, S.I.S. sent a longtime colleague to confront him, informally, with his sins-"a sporting way" to "allow Kim to run for it." Contends le Carré: "The Establishment is shown to have behaved with grotesque ineptitude. It is arguable that Kim Philby, spiteful, vain and murderous as he was, was the spy and catalyst whom the Establishment deserved...