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This kind of partnership for productivity has paid healthy dividends. Three years ago, Malaya displaced Indonesia−which had nationalized its rubber plantations−as the world's biggest producer of natural rubber. Last year, producing more than a third of the world's natural rub ber, the Malayan plantations brought in a fourth of the new nation's income. Be cause of rubber, Malayans enjoyed a high (for Asia) per capita income of $113, v. $40 for neighboring Indonesians. And because of this strong economy, Malaya may well be able to expand. Last week Britain agreed...
Kennedy is nonetheless determined to make medicare important in the November elections, hoping that enough of the blame for its defeat will rub off on the Republicans. He is already scheduled to campaign in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and Ohio. But wherever he goes, and whatever he says about medicare, John Kennedy will be hard-pressed to explain why the voters should punish his Republican opponents and continue to support the 21 stalwart Democrats of the Senate who ganged up on him last week...
...though the original pretense, sewing for the poor, has long since been abandoned. There are more modern advantages in having an eleemosynary excuse for an enchanted evening: 1) costs are tax-exempt contributions, and 2) the socially ambitious will write big checks and work furiously for the chance to rub elbows with those who have arrived. Credit-by-association is used as a negotiable commodity by many of the Old Guard to do good in the world. "The very social Mrs. Lytle Hull," observes Society Photographer Jerome Zerbe, "is so obsessed by her pet charity, the Musicians' Emergency Fund...
Howells argued eloquently and wisely that novelists must abandon fairy-tale heroics and write of the commonplace. But he could not see what James knew instinctively-that there was another side to reality, that life "often risks combinations and effects that make one rub one's eyes." Life as portrayed by Howells risked no such effects, and his novels unrolled with a tameness that even admiring contemporaries could not explain away. Henry Adams, writing a delicately equivocal notice of an early Howells novel (one of the pleasures of a collection of criticism is seeing eminent men of the past...
Cries of, "God, lookat dat big rat!" attracted several minions of the law. A squad car parked further down Holyoke St. Unsuccessful attempts to rub out the rat with hammer and broom drove the Yardling down the street. A howling mob of nearly 50 passers-by followed with shouts of "God, lookat...