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Puerto Rican businessmen now look to the island's government to pluck them from the economic slough. Officers of the hotel association want a wage-price freeze in the tourist industry. Others in the tourist business demand that more public money be spent on promotion and advertising, even at the expense of public education. Casino owners are pressing the government to allow slot machines and games like baccarat, which are presently banned. The real answer, of course, lies in a return to the pre-boom formula of courteous treatment and reasonable prices...
...drive essential to a woman who insists on being more than a private person, even though she understands all too well the peculiar costs to herself and to those she loves. The slow flowering of the "necessary egoism" of the born writer gradually enabled Storm Jameson to avoid domesticity, slough off a first useless husband, sporadically put aside a much-loved child in favor of work, and deliberately miscarry another. Egoism mastered diffidence, countered improvidence with "confidence in my strength and cleverness," and channeled all energies into the prolific output of well-made novels...
...veteran workers tend to slough off and slow down, figuring that they will not be fired. All this raises employers' costs. They kick up prices, and encounter little resistance. Since jobs are plentiful and incomes high, consumers are willing to pay almost any price...
...just ambition endowed him with vast hopes." On Viet Nam, he warned the young President: "The more you involve yourself there against Communism, the more the Communists will appear like champions of national independence . . . Step by step you will get bogged down in a bottomless military and political slough...
Died. Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 77, World War II hero and one of the great figures of British military history; of a rupture of the aorta; in Slough, England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war. In 1940 he conducted the evacuation at Dunkirk; in 1942 he commanded the British Army's fighting retreat through the Burma jungles. Later that year, he masterminded the defeat of the Afrika Korps, and in 1944 he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...