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...good, my compatriots, that you should not breathe a word of it to anybody, not even to your own soul for fear of having to judge yourself. The years of silence have been degrading and futile, for today the blinding sun of tor ture lights the whole country. There is not a laugh which sounds right, not a face which does not use makeup to mask anger or fear, not an act which does not betray our disgust and our complicity...
Kudos to Charles Davis from Austin for his stand on arming fallout shelters to keep the neighbors out [Aug. 18]. It is indeed wonderful to see that there are still some Americans around who are able to think tor themselves without aid from the Federal Government. Guns are man's best friend...
...attention when John D. Rockefeller Jr returned from France in 1935 with a haphazard collection of photographs of medieval works that an agent had wished on him in Paris. In those days The Cloisters, Rockefeller's great gift to the Met, had not yet been built, but plans tor it were nearly complete. It was to be, and now is, a museum overlooking the Hudson River from a ridge at Manhattan's northern tip, a building designed in such a way that parts of antique castles churches and monasteries could be incorporated into it. Among the photographs that...
...pulled Fidel Castro's beard with more regularity than Miami Adman Erwin Harris, 39, who is still trying to collect tor an advertising campaign he ran for the Cuban Tourist Commission in 1959-60. Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released...
...York's Westchester County, where the only certainties are debt and taxes. Peaceable Lane is a newly planted colony of middle-class status creepers whose houses cost $30,000. "You can get some pretty odd ones at those prices," says a big-rich snob from nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite who rarely pool anything beyond the cars with which the wives chauffeur the kids to school...