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While it is not meant to be a completely objective account, the Autobiography is much more than a partisan diatribe. Written with the cooperation of Alex Haley, the book contains its share of excerpts from Malcolm's speeches and glosses over a few unflattering situations (such as Malcolm's "chickens coming home to roost" statement, which is not even reproduced in its embarrassing entirely), but for the most part it is a surprisingly detached chronicle...
...Recklessly, Never." For the U.S., the President declared, "the exercise of power in this century has meant not arrogance but agony. We have used our power not willingly and recklessly ever, but always reluctantly and with restraint. The aims for which we struggle are aims which, in the ordinary course of affairs, men of the intellectual world applaud and serve: the principle of choice over coercion, the defense of the weak against the strong and aggressive, the right of a young and frail nation to develop free from the interference of her neighbors...
...hadn't. Salesman was never meant to be a documentary, and its X-ray examination of a man who is going under has kept it from becoming a period piece. Willy Loman, the salesman whose soul is as worn as his heels from his mindless pursuit of the American dream, is as pathetic today as he was 17 years ago. As his faithlessness to his wife and himself backfires and eventually destroys him, the play takes on the proportions of Greek drama, and Miller's point drives itself home: the common man can suffer a king-size tragedy...
Force if Necessary. As for attacking Najran, Qizan and other "bases of aggression," Nasser was acting as if he meant business. "After all," he reasoned last week, "these were originally Yemeni towns, which the Saudis usurped in 1930." Toward week's end, some 5,000 Egyptian troops were massing along the border only a few miles south of Qizan. About the same time, Republican Yemen issued a formal statement, claiming Qizan and Najran as Yemen territory and pledging to "regain-by force if necessary-these usurped areas...
Milking Millions. Starting in September, all British employers will be taxed $3.50 a week for each man on their payroll, and smaller amounts for women and boys ($1.75) and girls under 18 ($1.12). The differential is meant to nudge firms to hire more women, boys and girls. Manufacturers of such exportable products as chemicals, metals, ships, autos, textiles, clothing, furniture and printing will get a rebate starting in March of $4.55 per man, thus giving them a cost-lowering government bonus of $1.05 per worker...