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...never quite know how to talk to boys." The boys are usually busy talking to a pet moose or rocketing off to the moon. But at least, the cautionary yarns of the brush-your-teeth-or-mommy-won't-love-you variety seem to be on the wane. So are humorless educative nip-ups of the A-is-for-aspidistra, B-is-for-bathy-sphere order...
...strength of a business recovery, economists are fond of using the letter V to describe the pattern made on the graphs by a fast and vigorous comeback, the letter U to describe a slow one. Last week, for the first time since the 1960-61 recession began to wane, there were some cautious bets on V. On Wall Street the switch was reflected in growing confidence that the stock market is in for a new and sustained advance...
...stage in Africa's struggle, fashioned on the model of Algeria's F.L.N. rebels. For the moment, declared the remarkable document, Ghana would have to share leadership of the new Africa with such ambitious states as the U.A.R., Guinea and Mali, but their influence is destined to wane, in the long run, as Ghana's star rises. The new phase of the liberation movement, the paper went on, will receive its "inspiration" and "arms" from the Soviet Union-flowing through Accra to the rest of Africa...
...Japanese, noted for their skill at importing and improving U.S. business techniques, have advanced to a new high (or low) state. They have taken to one business practice that has been on the wane in the U.S.: the office Christmas party. The Japanese, who learned the tradition from American occupation forces, call them bohnenkai (forget-the-year parties), and they work diligently at drowning the past in a torrent of alcohol during two weeks of nightly Christmastime revelry with geishas, models and strippers...
...little Lion of Judah-and without his still-widespread popularity. Haile Selassie flew straight for the airstrip in Asmara in Ethiopia's Red Sea state of Eritrea, which was still under command of a loyal general. As his plane grew nearer, the plotters' fortunes began to wane. They could not even secure control of all Addis Ababa, and shells whistled into the center of town from loyalist army posts. In frustration, the rebels shot a few government officials they had captured and then fled into the mountains. Haile Selassie landed at Asmara to wild cheers and the usual...