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The other end of Biafra's strategic cable hookup is in the Geneva office of Mark-press, a public relations firm owned by American Adman H. William Bernhardt. Since January, Mark-press has literally waged Biafra's war in press releases ?more than 250 of them. They are crammed...
Three Reforms. Even so, Western diplomats may find temporary solace in the fact that for some time France will lack the economic strength to speculate against the pound and dollar. Despite its announcement of impending nuclear tests, France must also slow down the development of its force de frappe, whose...
As a superb politician, De Gaulle formulated the strategy that he thought would win-and it did. He sought to polarize the French electorate, forcing the moderate voters away from the left and into the Gaullist ranks. Toward that end, the Gaullists capitalized on the average Frenchman's fear...
And, at first, the world war did not leave the nation bereft of more personal social issues. On the last day of October, Harvard upset Princeton, a school Cambridge men scorned because it still refused to admit Negroes, by a 19-14 score. During the game Boston police confiscated all...
Nabokov lingers over the coincidence of the encounter, but his timing is nearly perfect. By drawing it out, he sharpens the anticipation of the impending adultery; before long, Martha, the frosty doll, and Franz, promoted from lifeless lump to "warm and pliant wax," can't get enough of each...