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...office in rural Maidenhead, Insurance Broker John Dobbin opened his London Times last week, scanned the big story from Moscow, and reached apprehensively for a list of his clients. He breathed a sigh of relief. Of the ten British and U.S. diplomats who had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government, none had insured his stay in Moscow with J. N. Dobbin...
...genre is Marguerite Duras, 48, whose novel The Square was a random dialogue between two strangers who meet in a park, talk endlessly and go their separate ways. Her present book has slightly more action, but it, too, is really a long interior monologue that reads like a long sigh of regret...
...born into the third Idaho generation of a Maine family that had moved west with the gold rush. After attending public sigh school in Boise and winning a nation-wide speaking contest, sponsored by the American Legion, he left Idaho for college and law school at Stanford. But he married the daughter of a former Idaho Governor, and returned to open a private law practice in Boise. In 1956 he entered state politics, narrowly beating former cowboy Senator Glenn Taylor in the Democratic primary and then walloping McCarthyite Republican Senator Herman Walker in the general election. Last November Church polled...
...stage is now set for ultimate resolution of this thing," said Director Kenneth Endicott of the National Cancer Institute last week, with a vast sigh of relief. Under last year's tightened drug-control laws, the Food and Drug Administration is at last launching an all-out investigation to answer a question that has caused savage controversy for twelve years: Is there any basis for the claims that Krebiozen, a mysterious horse-serum drug, is a cure for some forms of cancer? Though Krebiozen has never been approved by any federal agency, about 3,500 doctors have given...
Measuring their final profits statements against their yearlong apprehensions, many businessmen at year's end might sigh along with Mark Twain: "I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." It was that way in nearly all the world's industrialized nations?a year of growth but not of boom. Western European businessmen, lately accustomed to seeing their economies expand by more than 7% a year, had to content themselves with growth rates that ran as low as 4%. Japan's tycoons cried recession because their nation's expansion rate sank from a spectacular...