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This bountiful future will not arrive automatically; it must be worked for intelligently. "The main escape hatch rom scarcity," says the report, "is technological advance across a broad front, and behind this have to be large, varied, effective programs of research and development in science, engineering, economics nd management. And backing this up las to be a strong system of general education at all levels...
This last item, to their credit, Messrs. Frith and Cerf detected in the corpus of Fleming's work, and they pounce on it, with the highest of spirits and the greatest of glee. J*mes B*nd, their heavily camouflaged fly spy hero, is asked to uncover the hideous doings of one Lacertus Alligator (no asterisks) who plans to hijack the British Houses of Parliament with the Queen and everyone else of any importance inside, float them down the Thames and across the Atlantic, and ingeniously hide them in the Caribbean by spraying them with purple paint. Alligator heads...
...this is very droll--as are the descriptions of the first few of the ever-so-many pseudo-drinks that B*nd is forever ordering from discreetly obsequious waiters and it certainly contains the elements of parody. But this story-line gets lost in the telling, which is every bit as numbering as anything Fleming himself ever churned out. And that is what really troubles me about Alligator: the more one reads of it, the more one is haunted by the awful fear that I*n Fl*m*ng might easily be Ian Fleming himself and not a pair...
...other girl was Sylvia Pratt, warm-spirited daughter of a noted Boston doctor, and Kemper married her soon after he graduated in 1935-132nd in a class of 275. A "sand-rat lieutenant," he was soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians...
Says University of Minnesota Journalism Professor Raymond B. Nixon, who has made a study of the trend toward press monopoly: "The newspapers have changed their roles since the rise of monopolies "nd chains. They are not regarded today as primarily political mouthpieces." Today's reader, says Nixon, "buys newspapers for information and expects both sides of political questions. When newspapers started doing this, the need for reading two newspapers disappeared." The nation's press, always provincial in character, has become even more so. The metropolitan daily must bid for its readers not only against newsmagazines and TV, but against...