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...local issue: "I refer to an unfulfilled pledge made by the Republican Party in 1952 [for] 'a more efficient and frequent mail delivery service.' . . . My [Manhattan] office receives only one mail delivery a day. There is no large city in any other leading nation of the world-and I speak advisedly-where sucb a lamentable condition exists...
...hope to hold onto its skilled personnel in larger numbers, it faces a single, simple, unchanging attitude toward re-enlistment in its enlisted ranks-freedom v. institutionalism. Civil life or the same old saluting crud for another four years. We are the freest enlisted men in the world-and even among U.S. services. But . . . not quite free enough. You can re-enlist some of the enlisted men some of the time, but not all of them forever. At least not until Year XXX-1984, that...
...command," the Secretary said. As a result of its efforts, the Federal Government now owns or has made loans on $5 billion worth of farm products; e.g., it is holding 425 million bushels of wheat-enough to make five loaves of bread for every human being in the world-and has made loans on 764 million bushels of corn. The Government's storage bill for all farm commodities is $465,000 a day. Asked Benson: "What are we going to do about...
...memoirs than a novel. Self-educated, slum-bred Augie writes with a combination of raw, breezy slang and literary allusion that is often bouncy and effective, although too frequently his overenthusiastic prose is merely bloated. But Augie is a bubbling, vivacious fellow who knows how to smile at the world-and laugh at himself, and despite its faults of narrative, style and taste, the story is good enough to push 38-year-old Saul Bellow to the forefront of the younger, postwar U.S. novelists...
...When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande [National Life Insurance Co.] is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." That quotation had been used in TIME'S 1948 year-end business review, which Miller had written...