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...Sweep Up Your Missus." She was never "an appendage, this green-eyed one," admitted Shaw. She dragged him, coldly protesting, on endless travels to far-off places, where he was invariably miserable. When they had been married a dozen years, G.B.S. had a rip-roaring affair-on paper, at least-with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, making scant attempt to hide his infatuation from Charlotte's "sensitive person." (For once, he spared his wife the embarrassment of handling his love letters...
...other parts of the U.S., are alternately exhilarated or frustrated by the tension and pressures of the big city and of their jobs, and often feel penned in at their air-conditioned, glass-walled offices set high on steel shelves. Maybe that is why they read so much about far-off places, have an incurable travel itch, and pursue exotic and audacious hobbies. And maybe that is why, when our Modern Living department got intrigued by the growing hobby of sky diving, two of the best sources for the story turned out to be at nearby desks. Sport Researcher Geraldine...
...trip by his sister, Sargent Shriver's wife Eunice, standing in for the expectant Mrs. Kennedy as the feminine presence) spoke at the inauguration of West Germany's aborning Peace Corps. He predicted: "Germans will find their reward not here, pursuing their private pursuits, but in some far-off country...
...membership in the dozen Orthodox churches has grown 35% in the past few years to almost 6,000,000 communicants, and Archbishop lakovos, head of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South Amer ica, predicts that the churches will federate within a few years. Even in far-off Uganda, Orthodox missionaries have since 1920 created a thriving, growing church with 20,000 members...
...charges of warmongering, the Red Chinese replied with an argument that, ironically, echoed some Pentagon strategists. Brush-fire wars, declared Peking, need not necessarily escalate into an all-out nuclear struggle. Truth was, declared the manifesto, the Russians were too selfish and scared to risk their bourgeois gains in far-off battles. "To put it bluntly," said Red China, "whoever considers that a revolution can be made only if everything is plain sailing, only if there is an advance guarantee against failure, is certainly not a revolutionary...