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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rush of speculation. Gist of the rumors: Communist China was again preparing to attack Formosa or the Nationalist-held offshore island chains of Quemoy and Matsu. Later events gave some substance to the speculation: Communist MIG-17s and Nationalist F-86s and F-845 began tangling more often above Formosa Strait; Communist gunners began to pound the islands, last week put down thousands of shells in two hours of the heaviest bombardment that Quemoy has ever taken...
...might be, the U.S. still stood pre-eminent in the art of aidmanship. It was getting resigned to expecting no gratitude, and to accepting anomalies. Recognizing that poverty always has its claims on the rich, the U.S. could observe, in Latin America and the Middle East, that poor nations often had some mighty extravagant spenders among them. Italy had its 2,000,000 unemployed -and its rich who escape honest taxation. Wealthy Actress Gina Lollobrigida made the headlines last week by reporting a taxable income of only $18,583 for 1957, but she was only the prettiest rather than...
...skip the rest and hear your last point, please." Even rich and famous lawyers, their names trailed by the initials of knighthood and honor, knew what it was like to be put in their place by Goddard. A quick and brilliant man, he was often impatient, earned for his court the nickname "justice-in-a-jiffy." In one hour last July, he disposed of six appeals. To one man contesting a magistrate's order, he snapped: "Go away. I simply don't know what all this is about." To another who insisted that he had been convicted under...
...years politicians have thought that criticizing Brazil's government oil monopoly, Petrobrás. was a quick route to private life. But last week Sáo Paulo's often demagogic Governor Jánio Quadros-who wants the presidency in 1960-pointedly censured the ineffectual, foot-dragging state enterprise...
What Author Dennis offers is less often humor than lunatic good humor, and the reader is blown by a pleasant breeze of cheerful idiocy throughout most of the book. Probably inevitably, a calm is reached toward the end, when Mame doing her old turns in outlandish new costumes no longer seems very funny. Particularly in a long, unnecessarily moralistic chapter on Mame among the anti-Semites, Around the World begins to sound like The Long Voyage Home...