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There can be no doubt that a more rational organization of capital and labor and trade is crucial for Latin America. But beyond this, there are larger questions. Who will reap the benefits of this expanded market south of Texas...
...your article concerning the recent furor over the Warren Report, I was surprised at your omission of the most obvious theory. The "author conspiracy theory" holds that the assassination and all the accompanying doubts were plotted by a league of authors who wished to write ridiculous reports and thereby reap large rewards...
Thanks to the Prix Goncourt, Mile, Charles-Roux will certainly reap her own commercial benefits from the book. The Prix Goncourt novel each year makes just about everyone's Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English...
...artist who tackles the image of man with originality is a rare figure. Such a man is Britain's Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh and reap a contorted yet keen vision of mortality...
...shrugs off such gibes. His ambition now, he says, is "to halt the retreat of our country." As a start, he is flooding the market with texts, handbooks, tapes and films to help companies cope with Britain's massive new effort to retrain industrial workers. He expects to reap another fortune...