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...such an attitude, the first response of many Americans was apt to be apoplectic. But the summary objection to getting tougher with Nasser is that it only builds him up. So long as his position in Egypt and his influence on the Arab world depend on his keeping international and interracial conflict inflamed, Western badgering and blustering is apt only to enhance the fanatic image of Nasser as champion of the Arab masses...
Advice. The book does not depend on its gamey moments and archaic oddballs for its best effects. Essentially it is a victory of writing, each sentence surely pointed toward its purpose. Author Cheevers rueful love of his characters touches every page of the book. But perhaps he liked Leander best, Leander who left this "Advice to my sons'" in a copy of Shakespeare...
...size of the grant has not yet been decided and will depend upon how large a staff Conant thinks necessary. When contacted yesterday Conant thought that the staff would be "small...
Summed up General Schriever in a remark that rescued space travel once and for all from the realm of science-fiction fantasy: "In the long haul our safety as a nation may depend upon our achieving space superiority. Several decades from now the important battles may not be sea battles or air battles, but space battles, and we should be spending a certain fraction of our national resources to ensure that we do not lag in obtaining space supremacy." In that effort, Schriever made it substantially clear, the U.S. was determined...
...restrictions have cut purchases from Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Brazil and Argentina. Since war's end eleven major houses have closed (among them: Molyneux, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli). The big houses make their money on sales to the U.S. and abroad, or on sidelines-perfume, hosiery, etc. But most depend on private individual customers, who even at Dior account for more than 60% of the total dress sales. Nowadays, few couturiers do much better than break even on their sales to individuals. On a $400 dress, Dior reckons on a profit of only $30 (manufacturers who plan to reproduce...