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...nuclear reactors and jet aircraft. But the distance it has come is only measurable by the distance left to go. Some 200 million people still subsist on 150 a day; more than half of the 10 million government workers earn less than $25 a month. As a Calcutta industrialist put it: "The refugees have descended on our hopes like a swarm of locusts on a good crop...
...candidates, McCloskey is in the tightest financial bind. His sole big-time benefactor is California Industrialist Norton Simon, who so far has given $40,000. Otherwise, McCloskey has had to appeal to the small giver. "Pete McCloskey," read an ad in last week's New York Times, "would rather have his campaign financed by 10,000 people who want to participate directly than by a few big spenders. It's an oldfashioned, democratic idea...
...absolute majority was a double triumph for the burly, redheaded Kreisky-as Austria's first Chancellor of Jewish extraction and as a Socialist despite his descent from a prosperous industrialist family. His middle-of-the-road government has pressed for legal reforms, stressed the principle of full employment and, according to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, given Austria the highest sustained growth rate (7.1% in 1970) of any developed country except Japan. That record has helped convince middleclass, small-farmer and white-collar groups that Kreisky's Socialists are not necessarily uncultured...
Unlike the stereotyped surly Soviet diplomats of earlier times, many of the new men became unusually active in local communities. Hospitable party givers, they could also be seen frequently having a drink with an M.P. or a meal with an industrialist or businessman at an expense-account restaurant. In the elegant North London suburb of Highgate (where Karl Marx's grave is located), Soviet trade-mission officials took a handsome modern office building of glass and concrete, set up house in luxurious apartments that rent for $168 to $240 a week, and went out of their way to behave...
...Gabriel Borkman and Arnold Rubek, the heroes of John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and When We Dead Awaken (1899), Ibsen's last two plays, are close portraits of the artist as an old man battling desperately to make some central sense of his life before it ends. Borkman, the industrialist, loses the battle. "Those mountains far away . . . those veins of iron ore, stretching their twisting, branching, enticing arms towards me . . . wanted to be freed. And I tried . . . But I failed." But Rubek, the artist, in the last scene of Ibsen's last play, climbs...