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...could never achieve was a rapprochement with 20th century England. He was profoundly shocked shortly before his death in 1910 to hear Lloyd George, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, quip that "a fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two dreadnoughts" and was less easy to scrap. It was, Edward confided to a secretary, the most insidiously socialistic remark he had ever heard from a Minister of the King...
Sorensen was trusted implicitly in the White House, too, and with the exception of Robert F. Kennedy he was the President's closest adviser. He had a scrap with Barry Goldwater in the fall of 1961, when the Arizona conservative read into the Congressional Record a story for the Chicago Tribune which stated that "the man behind President Kennedy's rocking chair in a world with war tensions, escaped military service as a conscientious objector and Korean War service as a father." For the rest, he remained in the background: what he contributed to the fabric of Kennedy statements...
...Nikita laughed too soon. Yields in Kazakhstan slumped from an initial 16 bu. per acre to 5 bu. per acre last year, and Moscow was forced to buy more than 11 million tons of grain abroad. Inevitably, rumors spread that the Kremlin would scrap the Virgin Lands experiment. Sure enough, an official declaration last week implied just that. After spending $7.4 billion and drafting 350,000 fulltime farmers to work on the dubious project, the regime seemed to feel it was time to stop cultivating additional acreage in the far-off Virgin Lands, concentrate instead on raising output...
...turn a profit. In heated meetings with the French, the British have lately argued that the Concorde would be woefully outmatched by the planned U.S. plane, which will have up to 35% more speed and 100% more seats. Too much prestige is involved for the British and French to scrap the Concorde, despite rumors that they might, but they have already shelved plans to build a medium-range version...
Elia Kazan put a capsule review of his screenplay in a terse scrap of dialogue. Stavros Topouzoglou, trying to explain his feverish yearning for America, tells his fiancee, "You have to be what I am to understand." To understand the movie intimately you must be Elia Kazan or one of his relatives. America, America is a gigantic home movie, constructed from family stories about migration to the Promised Land. Kazan himself was born in Turkey, and he fervently wants his film to remind us "that we are all immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity...