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...what they say is both dusty with age and unthoughtful: apocalyptic fears about fascism in the Movement ("It is no secret that the leadership of the more militant groups is authoritarian."): short-sighted and tired admonitions about legislation producing hate ("Title II effectively shoves the Negro down the merchant's throat."); unsubstantiated claims for the free market ("The greatest effect of Title VII may turn out to be an actual decrease in the number of jobs normally open to Negroes...
Hard Choice. Mandelstam could have had an easy life if he had wanted one. Born in 1891, he was the only son of a wealthy Jewish merchant. His father treated him to a grand tour of Western Europe before sending him to the University of St. Petersburg and offered young Osip a safe future in the leather business. But Osip opted for the dangerous life of letters, and his father cut him off without a ruble. Nothing daunted, Osip moved in with the Acmeists, a stubborn little literary sect centered in St. Petersburg and set up in opposition...
...Soviet Union. Apel and his young technocrats wanted to boost hard-currency earnings with increased exports to the West. Their "illusionary, unbalanced demand" was to use these earnings to buy technically advanced Western plants and equipment. Instead, the trade pact committed East Germany to deliver some 300 merchant ships to the Soviet Union, at prices 30% below what Western buyers would have paid. The Soviet Union promised to supply oil, iron ore and other raw materials-at prices well above the world market...
...small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English from Cambridge. Years of wandering as a merchant seaman, a marriage in Paris, and a minor novel (Ultramarine, a Melville-and-blue-water affair) lay ahead before he fetched up in Mexico on a midget paternal subsidy...
...writer of your Christmas story [Dec. 10] found out what Christmas means to the merchant, not what it means to the average American family. As the mother of four small children, I believe they won't remember which store had the gaudiest display or what TV ad was most outrageous; they will remember making and wrapping gifts for the family, making holiday cookies for company, the family's going to church together, Christmas carols, the stable under the tree, the smell of turkey, and all the visiting and getting together with family and friends. Christmas is the time...