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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit for knocking out Cassino's main supply bridge, which had survived 1,200 air sorties. After the war, Clifton turned to Army public relations, was a top aide for Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley...
...Main reason, of course, is his popularity with the huge mass of voters less interested in political brilliance than in having a solid man at the helm. What is more, Erhard is the man in the middle of three middle-of-the-road parties, and ideally situated to form a coalition with either of the other two in the likely event that the Christian Democrats once again fail to win an absolute majority...
...recent years, however, year-round reading habits have changed. "People don't read many light books any more," says a Beverly Hills bookdealer. "These are not light times." Seasonal froth still abounds, but more vacationers nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read...
Moore & Mother. More romantic and sculptural than S.O.M.'s previous designs, the block-long, nine-story concrete building looks surprisingly light, almost as if it might take flight from its huge recessed columns. The glass-enclosed first floor, given over to the main banking facilities, is topped by seven floors of private and clerical offices...
...that it spends some $500 on each student, gets the difference from the Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Commonwealth and Avalon Foundations, plus private U.S. corporations and individual donors. Some 45 lectures are jammed into each four weeks, followed by afternoon talkfests in which the lectures are expanded or shredded. A main attraction is a 15,000-volume library of Americana...