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...their Islamic ties are complicated by bitter relationships with the Arabs, whom they ruled for four centuries. Both Israel and Turkey are virile, modern and westward-looking inhabitants of an old, static and inward-looking region. Turkey admires Israel's compact little army as the region's second-best force (after her own), while Israel sees Turkey as the only other Middle East power of military significance. For Israel, an island in a sea of hatred, the new .neighborliness is doubly welcome...
...recession" the U.S. racked up its second-best business year in history, and the best peacetime year ever...
...Premier remains widely liked and admired by the French people, and the only man since Charles de Gaulle who has given France a sense of cohesion, direction and escape from stagnation. Even Guy Mollet, the Socialist Party secretary, recognized this last week when he labeled Mendès "the second-best possible Premier"-meaning that if France could not have a Socialist Premier, then Pierre Mendès-France was the next best...
...would soon marry wraithlike Actress Julie Haydon, 44, with whom he has been keeping company for 17 years. Julie last appeared on Broadway nine years ago as a wispy cripple in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. "The best woman," Nathan once wrote, "is the inferior of the second-best man . . . To enjoy women at all, one must manufacture an illusion and envelop them with it; otherwise they would not be endurable." Marriage, he concluded, "is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw...
...cartoons pall pretty fast; thumbing them drubs the funnybone to numbness. With Steinberg's book: the drubbing is acute and varied enough to remain a slightly painful pleasure for an hour or so despite the fact that the book is clumsily laid out and padded with his second-best sketches...