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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West than ever before. Though he is careful not to say so publicly, privately he is known to consider Nasser a sincere man who is dangerously provincial, unaware of and indifferent to values of freedom that civilized men, both East and West, have developed and that Malik himself cherishes. Often accused by fellow Arabs of being a "Western stooge," Malik enjoys far great prestige abroad than in his own country, where he commands no important political following...
...physicist, now a civil service commissioner, Sir Charles is not only one of England's best novelists (The Conscience of the Rich), but a topnotch literary critic to boot. He can feel just as comfortable enmeshed in American letters as in those of his own country, and is often invited by U.S. universities for a lecture stint...
...good bridge player, shooting about 100. Now and then he sallies out of his modest Manhattan apartment to play some nonbusiness but highly serious bridge with the experts who hang out at Manhattan's Cavendish and Regency clubs. When he plays bridge with nonexpert celebrities, as he often does, Goren is perhaps the world's most tolerant partner, never criticizes even the sloppiest bidding...
Doll's House. Then came an even harder personal blow. Pregnant with her first child in 1943, Cinemactress Tierney went to the Hollywood Canteen to entertain the troops, almost immediately afterward came down with German measles. In the often-expected result, her newborn daughter Daria was physically beautiful but so mentally retarded that she will require lifetime institutional care...
...economic problem of many U.S. cities is downtown rot. As middle-and upper-income families move to the suburbs, property values decline. Businessmen find themselves shouldering an increasing share of taxes while the shoppers they lost throng suburban shopping centers. Often the attempted remedy, subsidized public housing, turns out to be little better than the disease: the untaxed projects house people on relief...