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Frozen Assets. In Los Angeles, after his best loaf of whole-wheat nut bread won only third prize at last year's county fair, Antique Dealer Streeter Blair. 69, froze his second best loaf, presented it this year, won first prize...
Dean Moriarty. a real gone kid in whom Sal sees traces of a "W. C. Fields saintliness," is the only authentic proletarian in a basically timorous band of bourgeois rebels. Dean steals cars where the others are scarcely capable of filching a loaf of bread from an untended grocery. He takes women and abandons them, wrecks Cadillacs for the hell of it. deserts his friends. He talks a blue streak in a syntax-free jumble of metaphysics, hipster jargon, quotations from comic strips and animal gruntings. Describing the skills of a hot saxophonist. Dean cries: "Here...
...fringes of the Communist upper-crust drift several hundred fellow U.S. Communists and fellow travelers of lesser rank. Bearded and beardless, they idle away the hours in avant-garde jazz cellars, drink tequila and loaf. But the top-line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even...
...months since Polish workers rose at Poznan crying for bread and freedom, the Poles have won half a loaf of freedom but very little bread. Out of their protests, Wladyslaw Gomulka rose to power, wrested control of the Polish Communist Party from the Stalinists, defied Moscow and won an election. But he inherited a mess: Poland was close to economic bankruptcy and moral anarchy. For all he tried to revive the Poles' fierce national pride and to relax the grip of the police state, Communist Gomulka found no Red formula to solve the economic crisis...
...conference committee simply split the difference: it authorized a $3,366,000,000 program (still to come: the actual congressional appropriations) and settled for a two-year spread on development loans ($500 million the first year, $625 million the next). Commented the New York Times on the half a loaf result: "The best that can be said for the conference bill is that it could have been worse. One can only hope that it will not cost us much more than the cut has 'saved...