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Puccini once showed a friend a French lithograph of a nude girl pressed against a grated window in Venice. "This," he said, "is the kind of libretto I want for my next opera." Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities...
This year, smelling victory, Snedden spent five months in Washington working hand in glove with Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior, and himself boss of a string of eight daily newspapers in Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and South Dakota. Snedden paced the Senate and House office buildings, flipping through 3-by...
But what was surprising was not the cheers, but the lack of more of them. In India the Hindustan Times carefully emphasized that Russia was better able than the U.S. to take such a step because the Soviets had just completed an extensive series of tests. In Japan, despite a...
¶ The U.S. has suffered from a propaganda failure. Despite a national obsession with "good public relations," no U.S. Administration has ever found a means of capitalizing on its anti-colonialism in Asia and Africa without bitterly antagonizing the colonial powers of Europe.
Flops & Fiascos. In the first half of 1957 alone, East Germany lost 7,400,000 man-hours because of a lack of raw materials, broken-down machinery, and all-round bad planning. The Ulbricht obsession with increasing exports has had some preposterous results. Items: ¶EastGermany offered to build oil...