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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analogy, currently popular in military circles, goes back to the nation's frontier days. Two men, their faces twisted in hatred and fear, confront each other across a card table. Each holds a revolver within inches of the other's breast, pointed unwaveringly at the heart. There they sit, each with the sure power to cause instant death, yet afraid to squeeze the trigger. For the one who shoots first will himself be killed-by the reflex action of a dying...
...Left could count on picking up 3,500,000 votes from them. It could also count on "those Christian Socialists who passionately love justice, including social justice . . . Would this mean an other Popular Front? No. For the man who would take Leon Blum's place - and he is a successor to Blum in many ways - is not a Marxist. The perspective would not be pro-Marxist; it would be New Deal." Old Virtues. Another recruit to the New Left is Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, chief editorial writer of the influential Figaro, who has professed him self disillusioned...
...most popular girl in Argentina?" asks a current Buenos Aires wisecrack. The answer: "Mercedes-Benz" -a humorous salute to the more than 13,000 German busses, trucks and cars that roll through the capital's streets. In Brazil, doctors rely on new German X-ray machines; in Haiti, Bavarian beer is the favorite; in Mexico, German generators whir in new power plants. These signs and portents measure a striking development: exports of goods from Germany to Latin America, at a dead halt only eight years ago, were 2½ times greater by dollar volume in 1954 than...
Saxton has no plans for other paper bound editions in the immediate future because "most of our titles don't appeal to the popular audience...
TRIAL, by Don Mankiewicz (306 pp.; Harper; $3.50), is the $10,000 winner of the Harper Prize Novel Contest, but the ribbon it really earns is a piece of black crape. The book is a flaccid throwback to the I-never-had-a-chance school of social protest popular in the '30s. Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town...