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...time when Americans were happiest. His autobiography, just published, How to Grow Old Disgracefully (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) is a flippant, bawdy, superficial account of phenomenal success and complete comedown in the tricky business of trying to make magazine readers laugh. It is also the most unashamed backward look at the National Bender in a long time...
...lives." A gentle tear for the boys I left behind me. There is wit in "Solo in Tom-Toms," but the memoirs of a lesser journalist, though perhaps more lively than those of a prominent statesman, are scarcely important enough to trot out the long gray beard and the backward look...
...incident highlighted the edgy mood of British businessmen, who of late have noted a stiffening in the Argentine official attitude toward British investment. So long as Argentina got the icy treatment from the U.S., the Farrell military government leaned over backward to be friendly. British investors, reconciled to expropriation under Peron's plan for taking over foreign interests, still hoped for fat payments. But now that the U.S. and Argentina seemed likely to patch up their differences, the Argentines were getting tougher...
...warnings that a separate Pakistan would be poor and backward, Jinnah answers: "Why are the Hindus worrying so much about us? Let us stew in our own juice if we are willing. . . . [The Hindus] would be getting rid of the poorest parts of India, so they ought to be glad. The economy would take care of itself in time...
...pregnancy, the chance of the fetus being deformed was almost 100%; if in the second six weeks, about 50%. Dr. Bass, while stressing that Australian statistics could not be applied to the rest of the world, reported that in seven cases he had observed recently he had found five backward children, two deaf mutes...