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...Kissinger's principal contribution to the discussion of contemporary foreign affairs rests in his analysis of the picture as a whole, rather than in his concrete proposals. Certainly to the non-governmental reader, this will be the greatest virtue of the book...
...Reader Sibley's figures are correct. The recorded peak of unemployment was 24.9%, in 1933; the postwar...
...Milwaukee, Walter Heller early decided on the shape of his career: "I wanted to combine the academic background with public service." He acquired a respect for learning and for public service from his German-born father, a civil engineer whom Heller recalls as an ''immensely wide reader. As a child I took for granted a range of parental information that as a parent I have never been able to live up to myself. My father knew the answer to every damn question a kid could think...
...England than anything Kipling had in mind, move through Author Lessing's narrative like pulsing presences. This is the kind of slice-of-life book that can get to be, and almost always is, a bore at about Chapter 2. What saves it for Author Lessing and the reader is the artlessness that conceals art, the conversational pace that never flags, and above all the refusal to be surprised by anything the English creature does in its own habitat...
...fresh publishing venture, Time Inc. is issuing armchair passports to this new U.S. breed of cosmopolite. The LIFE World Library (three books out, an indefinite number to come) is a series for the reader who has more than a tourist's interest in a foreign land but less than a specialist's. The volumes (available through subscription, not yet in book stores) are a long way from the usual non-books consisting of pasted-up magazine articles. While they use many pictures previously published in LIFE-as well as many new ones-the three volumes are written afresh...