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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palestinians own the main buildings and businesses...
...suppose that I haven't dropped out of the church because of two main facts: first, after hearing so many people say the same thing so many times, I can't quite shake the feeling that they just might be right. No one has ever proved it, but maybe there is a fire on the other side. I feel that I've got to keep up the premiums, just in case. Second, I still feel that the church has a tremendous capacity to do good, if it can only orient itself to this era of history...
...enunciated them during the campaign, one of Nixon's main objectives is to keep the economy on a forward course while reducing the disturbing rate of inflation-currently more than 4% a year-to about 2.5%. That, in turn, would go a long way toward strengthening the position of the dollar abroad. Yet excessive zeal in combating inflation could throw the nation's economy into reverse. The new Administration, says Yale Economist Henry Wallich, a onetime economic adviser to President Eisenhower, will find that it must perform a delicate balancing act "between policies that would bring...
...year of mammoth mergers, one of the main events came last September when Rochester's Xerox Corp. and Manhattan-based C.I.T. Financial Corp. announced plans for a union. The deal would have involved a swap of Xerox stock then worth $1.5 billion and created a hefty new conglomerate with assets of $4.5 billion. The agreement was based only on a handshake, but Xerox President C. Peter McColough cheerfully predicted that the merger would provide his company with "a much broader base than we now enjoy, enabling us to accelerate our plans in several fields...
...clue to what Eliot meant by this unfortunate title. An off-the-cuff guess is that Eliot was alluding obscurely to cockney slang or to a vaudeville routine. Another speculation is that this was a working subtitle expressing Eliot's preoccupation with authority: one of the main theological theorems of The Waste Land is that God, who utters words like datta (give) and shantih (the peace that passes all understanding), speaks neither sense nor English but, like men, in many voices and even in bad grammar...