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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, said Khrushchev, he himself would not inspect an American missile base even if invited. As for his activities in the U.S., there would be discussion with Eisenhower but not negotiation, and a main topic would be Germany-but not Germany's reunification: "There are no hopes of unifying East and West Germany in the near future, consequently one must proceed from the real state of affairs, from the fact that there are two German states." Answering another question, he magnanimously assured everyone that Russia will attempt no change in Berlin's status so long as talks continue...
...material is clearly organized, with cross-references where appropriate. Carey takes up seriatim the various punctuationl signs: period, colon, semi-colon, comma, parentheses, brackets, exclamation and question marks, single and double quotation marks, hyphen, apostrophe, capitals, italics, and paragraph indentation. And, although they are somewhat ancillary to the main topic, he adds two chapters--one on proofreading (I found only two slips in proofreading in the whole book); and the other on common grammatical and stylistic errors in such matters as participial agreement, the barbarous use of "following" for "after," the "due to"-"owing to" distinction, the coupling of relative...
From Marina Grande most visitors take a shiny new aluminum funicular (fare: 28?) up to the tiny Piazza Umberto, Capri's main square. There the day excursionist mounts the steps behind the piazza-to save money, he does not take a cafe table-and watches the crowd swirling beneath: men with pink shoes and dyed blond hair, women in sequined toreador slacks or skintight shorts...
...late half brother, Philanthropist Vincent Astor, who died last February at 67. Left out of the will without a penny, J. J. charged that Testator Astor was "mentally ill when the paper was executed . . . suffering from senility [and] arteriosclerosis ... incompetent to make a will." J. J.'s main chance to break the will: for undisclosed reasons, Vincent Astor was indeed a patient in Manhattan's famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic while the document was being drawn for his signature a year...
...acquired a slight brogue and a love of things Irish, was elected (1936) Palestine's Chief Rabbi from which post he worked for the creation of Israel and sustained the morale of his people during the dark days of the Arab war, wrote a five-volume study: The Main Institutions of Jewish Law; in Jerusalem...