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...making circles, gravitating easily to positions of power. A natural arbiter, he remains polite and analytical on the most controversial of subjects. These characteristics have served him well. When he retired last year, after nearly a decade as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-the longest anyone had held the post-he was the country's senior ambassador and the only one ever to have headed America's three leading embassies in Western Europe-London, Bonn and Paris. President Kennedy considered him for Secretary of State, passing him over only because...
Technological Drip-Out. The debilitating effects of the nation's longest war will probably forestall many of the anticipated advantages of a peacetime economy. For example, concern is growing about the economic distortion created by the relationship between the Pentagon and defense companies...
Their sharpest attack ever, though, was leveled last week at the ogre of a course that Jones conjured up for the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., site of the 1970 U.S. Open. Jack Nicklaus took one turn around the rolling, twisting, 7,151-yd. layout-the longest par-72 course in U.S. Open history-and groused: "On eleven of the 18 holes, you can't even see the area where the drives land." Billy Casper complained that on many approach shots he needed radar to spot the flagsticks. Bert Greene, experiencing similar problems, decided to "shoot...
...second. Because the findings have always led the changes in the economy by at least one quarter, the survey takers predict that the present slowdown will extend through the third quarter and probably until year's end. If so. the recession will have lasted twelve months, the longest stretch since...
...confrontations of plot and apparent symbolism at first seem to fit easily enough into the new century's dramatic reaction against the massive structures and stifling legacies of Victorian England: passion and beauty v. respectability and ugliness (Where Angels Fear to Tread), personal freedom v. conventional success (The Longest Journey), cultivation and simplicity v. the strangling encroachments of industrial wealth (Howards End). Most important, in taking up the issue of colonial oppression and racism in British India, Forster, with remarkable foresight, was the first to sound what became the most troubling political and moral issue of our times...