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Wherever Americans go, they can hardly avoid other Americans even if they want to. But few do. Around the world, they have one universal rendezvous for free advice, mail from the folks and, above all, the reassuring sight of fellow Americans: the nearest American Express office. It is the tourist's "home away from home," in the cozy words of American Express President Ralph Thomas Reed. A handsome, hazel-eyed man who looks like any other tripper when he goes abroad, Reed is the businessman who first applied to foreign travel all the ingenuity and resources of U.S. industry...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...
...distinguished Western visitors working for improved understanding were scarcely out of sight before India's Prime Minister Nehru made it clear he had not been charmed out of his old prejudices. British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd had assured him that SEATO is no threat to India. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had made a mighty effort to soothe his professed fears about the U.S.'s arming of Pakistan...
Agee's reminiscences of a young boy in Knoxville some forty years ago have a sweet moodiness, poignantly illuminated with bright and powerful descriptive flashes. The prose has a rather softly persuasive rhythm, and blends the specific qualities of sight and sound and feeling with the dreamlike removal of remembered childhood. "(He) mused with half-closed eyes which went in and out of focus with sleepiness, upon the slow twinkling of the millions of heavy leaves on the trees and the slow flashing of the blades of the corn...and everything hung dreaming in a shining silver haze...
Although the sight of two feet of snow on the ground and a promise of more from the weatherman should be enough to discourage even the most violent tennis enthusiast, tennis coach Jack Barnaby is already thinking in terms of what might be "the most successful tennis season in over thirty years...