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...President had been in Washington for only four days since the election, and nearly a month in the Texas sun shine had erased the marks of campaign fatigue. The relative isolation of the ranch protected him against Washing ton's nagging ceremonial duties, freed him to mull over foreign-policy issues and to chart the direction of the Great Society at home...
...helped make U.S. art dealing truly coed. The Russians recall her, when she was curator of the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, as the woman who told off President Eisenhower when he implied criticism of the show's modern look. The French respect her as Mme. Don Ton, for her gallery's name, Downtown, although it has been located in mid-Manhattan since...
Gnats & Cigar Smoke. O'Hara is right in thinking that his standing as a novelist has been misjudged. But critics have some excuse for slighting him: his last three novels have been poor. Ourselves to Know, a period piece, did not work very well; Elizabeth Apple ton was insignificant; and The Big Laugh collapsed in a foosh of elderly cigar smoke...
...cure the ills, the tall, scholarly Frei has more than a few ideas. Among those in the hard-planning stage: doubling Chile's 630,000-ton annual copper production in six years, vastly expanding the hesitant land reform program begun by his predecessor Jorge Alessandri, building such resources as pulp-yielding trees and the fishing potential of Chile's endless coastline. To help him, the new president has put together one of Latin America's most competent cabinets, drawing men from the top ranks of the professions, business, labor and government...
...Simultaneous and identical actions of United States Steel and other leading steel corporations increasing prices by some $6 a ton constitute a wholly unjustifiable and irresponsible defiance of the public interest...