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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...change in the status of Berlin raises the problem of the reunification of Germany. Admit it or not, many Frenchmen and Englishmen feel that West Germany is big and powerful enough as it is. Instead of pushing for reunification, they would prefer to concentrate on completing West Germany's integration into Western Europe. Even some Germans are not eager to jeopardize their prosperity by taking on the poor farm that is East Germany. But the U.S. remains convinced that so long as Germany is divided, it will be a flash point for war. And, as a matter of conscience...
Hotel owners sadly concede that the posh days are past. Miami Beach has lost its appeal to the high-living free spenders, who now prefer the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Many hotel owners frankly admit that middle-class tourists and conventions are becoming the chief sources of income, and the spending is much less. Says one Miami Beach hotelman: "We used to get the boss; now we get the office manager and the hired help...
...lead off with an appreciation of a recording of excerpts from the rehearsals of Maestro Toscanini, in which I had a certain part. Your music critic, like your book reviewer, who evidently considers my novels beneath his notice, has chosen to ignore me, which is a treatment I much prefer to possible deprecation...
Huxley died in 1895, at 70, and was buried without official benefit of clergy. Throughout his life he had been a model of Victorian rectitude, partly to prove that a man could be moral without fearing Hell -although he said if the climate and company were right he preferred Hell to annihilation. To his scientific allies who made a fetish of X, the unknown, he had written: "If I am to talk about that of which I have no knowledge at all, I prefer the good old word God, about which there is no scientific pretence...
...candidly admitted that when it came to watches, "I'm a moron." He set out to learn about watches-and what was wrong with Elgin-by paying $50,000 for market surveys. The surveys showed that Elgin simply was not making what buyers wanted. Men were found to prefer round watches (most of Elgin's were rectangular), to like functional stainless steel water-and shockproof cases (Elgin's were mostly yellow gold), to want sweep second hands (only 15% of Elgin's models had them). Elgin had always prided itself on its high-priced watches...