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Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s. The five two-term administrations before this one were all followed by an election in which the big man's Veep sought the presidency on his own--a kind of third term as well as an implicit referendum on the previous...
...master spooks in the 1950s had designed the perfect spy--someone they could groom from the start and then send out into the cold, only to have him return years later to save the agency at its most critical hour--he would have looked a lot like Porter Goss. Reared in Connecticut, Goss prepped at Hotchkiss, studied Greek at Yale and spent the 1960s in the agency's clandestine service, overseeing covert operations in Latin America and Europe. His years as a spy left little trace on his résumé. He quit the CIA in 1971 after a mysterious case...
...story but seeing one in comix form still comes as a shock. Another commonality in "Scheherazade" is a greater interest in exploring the nuances of relationships. Ellen Lindner's "Undertow," with the look and feel of a comix "Mildred Pierce," paints a noirish portrait of two girlfriends in the 1950s. The book's strongest piece, Gabrielle Bell's "One Afternoon," combines the yin/yang of a relationship study with a compact, twisty plot. Drawn with a simple clarity, it brilliantly updates one of Kate Chopin's devastating portraits of a caustic marriage hidden behind a veneer of politeness and misguided obligation...
Personal savings accounts emerged as a Social Security component in academia as far back as the 1950s, but the idea remained dormant until the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan ignited a Republican revolution and the recently formed libertarian think tank the Cato Institute latched onto personal accounts as a free-market fix. Retirement savings, in the free marketeers' view, should be seen as dynamic investments rather than welfare-state safety nets. Indeed, the Cato economists and others concluded that Social Security just wasn't a good investment, based on what taxpayers put in and what they ultimately get out. The President...
DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...