Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saved by the Wings. The first challenge came from ambitious Juan Lechín, the leftist Vice President, who has been at loggerheads with Paz ever since they rose to power in the 1952 revolution that toppled the Andean country's feudal tin-mining aristocracy. Unable to patch up their differences at the ruling M.N.R. party convention in January, Paz had himself nominated for another term as President, while Lechín was drummed out of the party. Then Lechín called a rump convention at which he tried to rig an anti-Paz alliance of Communists...
...whole man." Even Mary Cheever subscribes to the theory that her husband is not as other men. She recounts with some awe the story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with him in real life, rose from bed, drove through the night for three hours, and indeed found his brother in Connecticut helpless, alone and in dire medical straits...
...more than half a dozen people, he shrinks to the point of anonymity," says a friend. The essential point about this complex man is made by his veteran editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell. Quoting Gertrude Stein on the absoluteness of creation, Maxwell once said: "If 'a rose is a rose is a rose,' a rose is also a rose-making machine. Cheever is a storymaking machine." To untangle the somewhat lush botanical metaphor, this means not merely that Cheever is a natural writer, who thinks best about events in the pattern of a fable, but that...
...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., world's largest, with 1963 assets of $20 billion (and father of Frederic W. Ecker, head of Metropolitan from 1953 until a year before his death three weeks ago at 67), who signed on as a $4-a-week mail boy in 1883, rose to direct all Metropolitan investments, most notably Metropolitan apartment communities, from Parklabrea in Los Angeles to Manhattan's StuyvesantTown; in Manhattan...
Rankling Problem. Last week there also appeared one of the rare glimmers of hope for solving the nation's most rankling economic problem: unemployment. Though nonfarm employment usually drops by as much as 350,000 in February, it actually rose by 80,000 last month, to 56.9 million Americans at work in shops, offices and factories. Walter Heller expects that the business expansion will reduce the rate of unemployment from 5.4% to 5% or below by year's end. That would still be short of the Administration's goal of 4% , and the nation would still have...