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...with a féte accompli, Lyndon did the sporting thing: at a televised People-to-People luncheon, he suggested that it would be nice if someone helped Bashir get to the U.S. People-to-People Program, an independent group of international-minded Americans, promptly volunteered. So did the Reader's Digest...
Meanwhile Annie Oakley gave young Hamid his first English reader and patiently taught him the language-with her petite flat feet soaking in a tub of water...
...routine promotion announcement by New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust caused many a financial-page reader to do a double take. Named as the newest of 91 vice presidents of the bank that, until a 1959 merger, was renowned as the "House of Morgan" was John P. Morgan II, 43, grandson of J. P. Morgan and great-grandson of the great J. Pierpont. A Harvardman (class of 1940) who has been with Morgan's ever since he finished a World War II tour as a subchaser skipper, the latest J. P. is described by colleagues...
Torture & Betrayal. A must for the general reader in the West today is Thomas' account of the international brigades and the hallucinatory propaganda that surrounded them. Sixty thousand young Europeans (mostly French, but 2,800 Americans and 2,000 British were among them) fought in the international brigades or otherwise served the Republican cause. Their battalions bore honored national names-"Abraham Lincoln," "Masaryk" or "Garibaldi." They may or may not (Thomas is unsure) have saved Madrid's civilians-in-arms from Franco's 20,000-man besieging army, but whatever their effectiveness in battle, the brigades were...
Everybody's Crime. All of this might be funny in a macabre way if it were not so flatly incredible. The novel is not helped by an overworked style that always seems to be asking the reader to finger the rich material of the prose. In Steinbeck's naively symbolic handling, the world of money and business is reduced to a branch of witchcraft, thus vitiating any valid point that Steinbeck might have hoped to make about the state of U.S. ethics. Asked to define business at one point, Ethan calls it "everybody's crime." The guilt...