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...them to pulling it off: at first glance, The Foxglove Saga could pass for a sequel to Decline and Fall. Like Evelyn's first novel, The Saga opens in an English boys' school and is a picaresque, loosely jointed account of several old school chums as they lurch through a succession of army camps, prisons, hospitals and asylums. The characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall: for the wealthy Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde and her brattish son Peter, Auberon substitutes the wealthy Lady Julia Foxglove and her brattish son Martin; for the loutish Percy Clutterbuck...
...Last Lurch. Last year the New Haven rolled $14.5 million into the red. In one final lurch toward solvency, Alpert persuaded the Governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts to push through tax reductions totaling $6,000,000 on New Haven property. He hoped to save another $6,000,000 by economies in labor and management and by repeal of the 10% federal excise tax. But the state tax reductions did not go into effect until a fortnight ago, the federal tax was not repealed, and the labor-management savings never came about...
...compatibility of careers and marriage for women, Judge Allen sticks to the middle of the road. "It's all right for a woman to enter a profession," she asserts vigorously, but then qualifies, "If she has a family she can't go off and leave it in the lurch. I believe that as much as anybody." Her own career has sometimes been a lonely one. "It would have been pleasant to have had another woman on the Court of Appeals," the Judge notes a little wistfully. She denies that her sex has in any way constricted her career. "Some people...
...Cuba, and will accept another debate if he can be sure Cuba will be the topic. Stir into this frenetic brew of telegrams Kennedy's assertion that the vice-President is "afraid" to debate with him and Nixon's statement that such an assertion is "sophomoric" and the lurch toward a fifth debate grows overpowering in its momentum...
...lots of nightclubs), theater buffs (1960 is the year for the Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed en route. Touring cost for two: $6 in a horse-drawn Dublin cab. For $2.50 from West Berlin there is a guaranteed...