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Died. Sir Victor Sassoon, 79, monocled Rothschild of the Orient and owner of one of Britain's finest racing stables; of a heart attack; at Cable Beach, Nassau. Financial chief of a famed British banking clan-and cousin to World War I's angriest young man, Poet Siegfried Sassoon-Sir Victor parlayed a fortune originally built in the opium trade into ownership of much of prewar Shanghai...
...International Seminar next week will concern itself with the West and the Orient...
...those days to shore up its colonial rule, spent $1,000,000 to celebrate. But the ensuing rule proved less glittering. Although Sir Hari had a yearly income of $10 million, a silver-plated airplane, and a Versailles-sized palace up in Kashmir at Srinagar-now one of the Orient's most luxurious hotels-he spent much of his working time suppressing opponents to his despotic rule...
...than principle is forcefully illustrated in President Kennedy's recent address on Cuba. "... the soft societies," the President said, "are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined... can possibly survive.... We intend to re-examine and re-orient our forces of all kinds; our tactics, and our institutions here in this community. We intend to intensity our efforts for a struggle in many ways more difficult than war.... I am determined upon our system's survival and success, regardless of the cost...
...later). Young Bob was an early reader, fast with figures but sickly, and he was 15 before he showed signs of wanting to break out of the protective parental eggshell. He did: he went to sea as an ordinary hand, traveled once through the Panama Canal, once to the Orient and four times to Hawaii...