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...bucket in this case is worn by Conrad Castiletz, an upper-middle-class Viennese businessman whose ordered life is shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever...
...this fear-and its crippling effect on the spendable income of the aged-that has made medicare, in one form or another, a compelling social need and a political issue. The long-drawn battle in Congress that led to the recent defeat of the Anderson-Javits bill was in part a dispute over how the need should be met. Some still argue that it is enough to rely largely on private insurance plans, but in a recent study the Brookings Institute concluded: "The fragmentary evidence available suggests that health insurance does not meet more than one-sixth of total medical...
...planes instead of blueprints. Maudling's biggest failure came in 1957, when he led Britain's attempt to forestall the European Common Market with a 17-nation free-trade area. Though negotiations were broken off by France, even his friends concede that Maudling was bored by the long-drawn discussions and dubious about Britain's need to join Europe. Today he is one of the government's leading "Europeans" and a stout proponent of Britain's entry into the Common Market...
...Western Decision. Into this atmosphere at week's end came British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, arriving in Washington aboard a Royal Air Force Comet. Macmillan, who favors the Soviet bid, contended that the long-drawn Geneva talks had raised such high hopes around the world that to resume testing would amount to propaganda suicide. If the West were to reject the Soviet compromise, it would have forfeited the opportunity to hold the Kremlin to a controllable ban on atmospheric tests and large underground explosions...
...veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener to a Vuillard world record...