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...perseverance can pay. From The Polite Americans' morass, the patient reader can pick out a few dry footpaths to a reasonable comprehension of the country's character. It would have been nice, though, and this would certainly have been a better book, if the author had required of the reader a little less perseverance and of himself a little more perspicacity...
Soft-Shoe Act. Lindsay's other problems seemed almost trivial beside New York City's financial morass. Though Candidate Lindsay blithely said, "There is no question but that the line must be held on taxation," Mayor Lindsay inherited a $400 million deficit in the current fiscal year and an anticipated shortage of nearly $600 million next year. Lindsay now seeks $780 million a year in new tax revenue, including an income levy on residents and commuters that would give New Yorkers the dubious distinction of being the most highly taxed metropolitanites in the country. For this measure...
Wrong Defeat. There is, of course, a great deal more. Lockwood banishes his son for the unforgivable fault of getting kicked out of Princeton, his daughter gets entangled in an intricate sexual morass in London, he himself acquires one mistress too many (O'Hara tycoons always have several mistresses). His brother kills himself-and the mis tress. In the end there is no one left of the Lockwood concern but the principal person of this private religion. But the chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that...
...including a 14-member U.S. team led by Assistant Treasury Secretary Merlyn N. Trued and-remarkably-a high-ranking, five-man delegation from the Soviet Union. All of them came to Bangkok last week to set up a $1 billion Asian Development Bank to help lift Asia from its morass of poverty. Its purpose: to finance such economic necessities as power, ports, railroads, water supply and industry...
Shevlin, a junior, is one of the legion of high school stars--he played for Wakefield High (Mass.) High--who disappear into the morass of college football and are never heard from again...