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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. A distinguished and versatile critic gathers shards of youthful experience into a memoir that says farewell to the innocence-his own and the country's-that was shattered by World War I. The same experiences help his rather stilted early stories, GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY, now reissued, to hold up as searching documentaries...
...account. I have talked with dozens who eyewitnessed various phases in Jerusalem, Beirut and Egypt from the Arab side. Everything you said correlates, and I was happy to see King Hussein get due but not excessive credit for his heroic synthesis of conflicting loyalties. His people deserve all the help we can give them...
...rail operations. But as the result of an earlier acquisition, the consolidated balance looked better. Velsicol Chemical Corp. and smaller Michigan Chemical Corp., acquired by the C. & N.W. two years ago for $90 million, reported quarterly earnings of $5,300,000 on sales of $21.6 million. With this help, C. & N.W. overall profits for the first quarter were...
...finance companies can increase lending capacity by 10%; the building sector, hardest hit of all, will be stimulated by a variety of credit improvements. In addition, a three-year-old price freeze on industrial products will be reduced and export incentives increased. If exports increase, these measures may help bring the budget closer to balance-a hope to which the French always cling. Analysts reckon that the deficit will grow to $1.2 billion by year's end against a $24 billion budget...
...help the reader sort these experiences, Wilson intersperses explanations, second thoughts, and pithy portraits of his family and friends. From these, the biographical outlines emerge: childhood in the enlightened Victorian household of a former New Jersey attorney general, a trip to Europe, education at the Hill Preparatory School in Pottstown, Pa., and at Princeton, Army service overseas in World...