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...JOAN SEYMOUR...
...national interest came first, as Pentagon Planner Seymour Deitchman points out, "in the use of the atom bomb, the Mexican war, the war with Spain over Cuba, the destruction of American Indian tribal society, failure to support the Hungarian rebellion. We were able to rationalize our moral problems, which were real and recognized, because the political and economic problems were greater and more urgent." Similarly, Kashmir is of national interest to Indians, who believe that its loss would put in jeopardy hundreds of other princely states and consequently imperil India's tenuous union itself. It is also of national...
...themselves, but some employees in the corporate world have taken the optional road to riches. At Idaho's Boise Cascade Corp., Vice President William Eberle, 41, has piled up $2,300,000 worth of stock through options, and the chief designer of Control Data's computers, Seymour Cray, 39, has stock worth well over $1,000,000. They, of course, showed fine timing and an expert instinct for opportunity. Through the careers of all the young millionaires runs a golden thread: they determined early in life to devote themselves to accumulating great wealth, and they pursued that goal...
After six years of painful, reclusive silence, Author J. D. Salinger, 46, has produced another story. It's no Catcher in the Rye or Franny and Zooey-just one more refraction through his magic Glasses in the form of a letter that Seymour Glass, the fictional family's presiding guru and ghost, wrote home from Camp Hapworth, Maine, at the tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour...
...intelligent introduction, Seymour Krim says in effect that he admires Kerouac but thinks he has reached the end with Duluoz and action prose, and that he should try something else. Krim is right. But if the Duluoz wandering is over, it has been a wild and sometimes exhilarating ride, from Road to Desolation Angels...