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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, when I was 17 or 18, living in China, my father introduced me to books of Vladimir Sirin, which was Nabokov's pseudonym at that time. The first books that I read were The Luzhin Defence; King, Queen, Knave; Invitation to an Execution and some delightful short stories written in Russian. I kept all of his books for years, reading them over and over until they resembled worn-out library books; unfortunately, I lost them in a fire during the war in Manila...
...Saigon bureau chief: "In private conversation, Thieu and Vice President Ky talk about eight months ahead of the way they talk in public. Thieu today expresses his appreciation of the political facts of life in the U.S. and of the necessity for serious negotiations with the Communists." Short of outright coalition, which the U.S. does not now advocate anyway, he might accept one of the other formulas that have been proposed. One solution, for example, might be to let each side retain the areas it now controls while a neutral commission supervises balloting. Another might be an international commission...
...Perhaps the most dramatic evidence in the entire poll on how rapidly American morality is changing," says the survey, "is the rise-and the admission of that rise-in what would surely have been considered highly serious moral infractions only a short time ago." The number of people who say that they know someone who commits adultery has risen from 24% to 36% since 1964; 15% now-v. 10% then-virtually admit to instances of adultery in their own family. In other areas, 13% know someone whose child uses marijuana, 59% know someone who drinks too much, 22% know someone...
Both Poher and Pompidou had conducted campaigns that promised something for everyone. Poher, the folksy Frenchman who in the short space of six weeks had come from the obscurity of the Senate to make a bid for Charles de Gaulle's vacated job, presented a 12-point program that amounted to a New Deal for France complete with the ringing promise to make telephones available to every home.* Pompidou promised only slightly less, and added the guarantee that his promises would be kept, thanks to the fact that only he commands the Gaullist majority in the National Assembly. Carrying...
...articles-a routine description of the football season and a confusing skiing story. There are two pages of fine crew pictures, two pages of dull wrestling pictures, two pages of out-of-focus winter track pictures. Nothing at all on the nation's best squash team and only a short paragraph on the Olympic crew.Whoever wrote cutlines for the four pages of hockey pictures couldn't spell Ron Mark's name and probably couldn't tell a fore-check from a slap shot...