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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pinpointed on Chinese plotting maps is Japan, which, ironically, continues to supply Chinese buyers with the sophisticated technology that Peking needs for missilery, as in the recent sale of a vacuum furnace and rolling mill for titanium and tantalum rocket metals. Though Japan nominally subscribes to the Western list of goods forbidden for sale to the Communists, the lure of profits with the mainland has proved too great. Japan, in fact, has no investigative and inspection staff for checking on sales to China...
...access to nearly half of the pre-Castro leaf still warehoused in the U.S. And yes, Garcia y Vega has the promotional services of one of the more fascinating authors in the nation. In return for mailing in ten bands from the company's Elegantes or Gallantes (list price: two for 250), a cigar smoker can get a free copy of To Seek a Newer World (list: $4.95), a slim volume of essays by Senator Robert Kennedy...
...always that way. From 1936 through 1950, the infant-mortality rate in the U.S. dropped from 57.1 to 29.2 per 1,000, an improvement of 49% that placed it sixth. Then the descending curve leveled off. By 1955, the U.S. had slipped to eighth place on the list. Since then, while other nations have achieved dramatic reductions, the U.S. rate has declined at an average of only .83% per year, pushing the nation even farther down the list...
...afford it if he does. For running its global empire, Jersey Standard last year paid him $395,833 in salary and bonuses. He is a devoted family man, but he is so anxious to keep his personal life out of the public eye that he does not even list his wife and daughter...
...still turned on the relationship of serf to master, Tolstoy could indulge his appetites without fear of rebuke. As a 22-year-old volunteer, he fought rebel tribesmen in the Caucasus, wenched, gambled, and tossed off cocktails made of vodka, gunpowder and congealed blood. But he also kept a list of puritanical Rules of Life, which he usually updated during the tormented periods of guilt that almost always followed his revels. Even his searing self-rebuke often seemed gluttonous. He was, says Troyat in one of the book's few sprightly phrases, "a billy-goat pining for purity...