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Unfortunately, elegiac verse, seemingly a ceremonial necessity for poets laureate, does not seem to be his forte. His unofficial effort on the death of Winston Churchill laments that "the route was difficult, and the peak remote" for "the young fox-haired firebrand of debate." That verse won the Times Literary Supplement's nomination for 1965's worst poem. Several years ago, however, Day-Lewis took a step that should prove enormously helpful. As he relates in his autobiography The Buried Day (1960), he refuses to subscribe to a press-clipping service...
...Nouvel Observateur, Debray said that three days after his capture in central Bolivia, his life seemed doomed. "I was in very bad shape," wrote Debray, "and the excitement of the officers who were venting their anger on me, with no precise goal in mind, had reached its peak." They were "amusing themselves," said Debray, "by firing between my legs and as close to my head as possible." Then along came some Spanish-speaking CIA agents who "called a halt to such shenanigans, summoned a doctor and at first treated me with utmost courtesy." In Washington, the CIA would neither confirm...
...fare among, for example, the 48 possibilities from New York to San Francisco. CAB recently allowed the carriers a slight curtailment in use plus a few small increases in "Discover America" excursion fares, which offer a 25% discount from regular round-trip coach fares but require passengers to avoid peak traffic times. And the airlines hope that this week's resignation of CAB Chairman Charles Murphy (who will join the White House staff as a consultant) may soften the board's resistance to a small (perhaps 5%) general fare increase for short hauls. The industry's profit...
Despite incomes that rose to a new peak, consumers turned surprisingly frugal and saved 7% of their after-tax cash, the highest sustained rate in a decade. Savings banks and savings and loan associations, which had been strapped for mortgage funds a year earlier, were deluged with deposits. Thus housing became the year's comeback industry, climbing from an annual rate of 1,111,000 private starts in January to 140% of that level. On the other hand, retail sales-which normally account for two-thirds of what consumers spend.-rose barely faster than consumer prices, which jumped...
...spring economic dip and a big increase in the number of teen-agers seeking work compounded one of the most vexing problems of the U.S. economy: bottom-of-the-force unemployment, especially among Negroes. Overall unemployment rose from 3.7% in January to a peak of 4.3% in October, then declined; but the jobless rate among teen-agers jumped from 11% to 14% (9.6% for whites, 22.8% for Negroes). Unable through its own machinery to cope with that and other potentially explosive social problems, Government has increasingly turned to business for help. "Government alone cannot meet and master the great social...