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...Honor Tracy, for her first novel published in the U.S., has written the farce of the year. But Catholic readers, especially those of Irish descent, are warned that they will probably find it also highly scandalous. Patrickstown is all right in its own way-only an hour's jaunt out of Dublin, with good fishing, cozy drinking facilities, its inhabitants (now that Lord Patrickstown, the last of the Protestant gentry, is a convert) sleeping peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence of love...
Stakes in Cairo. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the formal opening of the bank, President Black was in the midst of a 15,000-mile jaunt to Europe and the Middle East. In London he touched economic bases with Governor of the Bank of England Cameron F. Cob-bold, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick; in Paris, he chatted with Old Friend Pierre MendesFrance, lunched at the home of Bank of France Governor Wilfred Baumgartner. Flying on to Iran, Banker Black talked about accelerating Iran's seven-year...
...year-old Vice President, the U.S. trip was much more than a run-of-the-mill good-will jaunt. Goulart has proved himself a skillful vote getter, particularly among his country's workers. But his success with labor has also won him the bitter distrust of many military leaders, who call him everything from Peronist to Communist...
...bound traveler or the back-yard barbecuer, vacation separates are the perennial favorite. To stay comfortable and versatile, the vacationer can wear a one-piece playsuit with an accompanying skirt--on the beach, skirt off; for a lunch date or shopping jaunt, skirt...
...ideal day of rest for the railroad enthusiast is spent on a jaunt with his fellow enthusiasts to a destination which has significance in railroad history. The enthusiast of course prefers to ride behind steam, but in these trying times of dieselization, must be content just to ride. Whenever the "hogger" (engineer) stops for water (and engineers must ration such stops carefully now), just as like as not the railroad enthusiast will leap from the vestibule, race to the engine, and consume a role of Kodachrome in the excitement of the moment. If he's not taking photographs...