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...book sheds little new light on Menachem Begin. Since his retirement last September, the former Prime Minister has become a virtual recluse, and is unlikely to share publicly his thoughts on the invasion. Shiffer does state that Begin feels deceived by Sharon about the chances for a swift, complete victory in Lebanon. The book does not say whether the majority of Israelis feel deceived as well...
...returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them...
...swift Western response to the Berlin blockade reflected postwar thinking about how to manage the Soviets. Writing in Foreign Affairs under the pen name "X" in 1947, George Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff, argued that the West should "contain" the U.S.S.R. by countering Soviet pressure at crisis spots around the globe. But Kennan later denied paternity of any "containment" strategy. It was President Harry Truman who made it the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In requesting $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, which were threatened by Communist expansion...
...first impression is one of vitality and variety. The exhibition rooms of the Costume Institute at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are bursting with lavish clothes: swift little contemporary silhouettes; magnificent ball gowns seemingly from a grander, more inert age; fantastical garments of no recognizable provenance. A few are so ugly that the eye looks away; many more are heartbreakingly lovely. They are all the work of one man: Yves Saint Laurent, 47, the most famous and influential clothing designer in the world, the king of fashion...
...hour and a half early last Monday. They were preparing for an avalanche: the start of trading in 1.6 billion shares in eight new companies to be created Jan. 1 by the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph. At precisely 10 a.m., the opening bell sounded with six swift clangs, and the rush was on. By 10:14, all eight of the new issues had opened, and 1.9 million telephone shares had changed hands...