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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading that I am the commuter's friend, some might well say, "May the Lord protect me from my friends, and I'll take care of my enemies myself!" Numerous delays and overcrowding, frustrating to our commuters and disappointing to us, accompanied a radical changeover to the present service and shorter schedules. These difficulties are temporary only, and TIME correctly reflected the North Western's belief that an outstandingly good commuter service can be provided on a self-supporting basis...
...element: reunify Germany by free elections with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Possible tactic: offer the Russians a new European security treaty guaranteeing that no new German militarism could threaten them, even to the point of guaranteeing not to move NATO troops forward of their present positions in West Germany...
...final, psychological effort to increase the prestige of France's wavering currency (which has now been devalued seven times since the end of World War II), De Gaulle and his ministers proposed to introduce gradually, between now and 1960, a new "heavy franc," equivalent to 100 present francs and roughly close in value (20?) to two of the world's most respected monetary units-the German Deutsche Mark and the Swiss franc. (Frenchmen, said Pinay, will soon get used to dropping two zeros from all their figures...
...Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, which was the story of a man to whom drink was a religion. Coccioli succeeds in the more difficult story of a man intoxicated by God. His complicated moral seems to be that sanctity is inviolable, that revelation is continuous, that time present is time past, and that, whether or not Christ is also the Lord Tepozteco, it is unarguable that God is also Dios...
...father, a devout, unaspiring Church of England priest, for the dazzling world of the London theater. Inevitably, Alex steps through Playwright Bliss's looking glass, when she goes to work for him as his secretary. Bliss is an homme fatal, one of those men three-quarters of whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny...