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Though rich in startling, unsentimental detail, Eroica's disillusioned view of history never comes to wider focus upon a compelling character or a whole truth. Against the background of Poland in 1957, however, its very ambiguity is provocative-partly an elegy for individualism, partly an indictment of a people destined to trade old masters...
...recognition of Red China. His most important task will be to promote Common Market farm negotiations, and his appointment was clearly designed to placate the massive agricultural vote alienated in December by De Gaulle's hostility to the Common Market, an attitude that many farmers think denies them wider European markets...
...consumers' savings spread out spottily across the nation from New York, increasing in complexity as it grew. Most big Manhattan commercial banks lifted their rates from 4¼% to 4½% on certificates of deposit-the most popular form of time deposit. They also began offering a wider variety of minimum denominations (generally $1,000 to $2,500) and time limits (six to twelve months) to broaden the appeal of C.D.s from corporations to individuals...
...after he was inaugurated President, Bosch began ignoring Miolán and started undercutting the party organization in favor of playing messiah to everyone, including the extreme left. When Bosch was ousted by the Dominican army in 1963 and both men took asylum in Puerto Rico, the split grew wider. After the April civil war erupted, Miolán publicly called for intervention to "prevent the genocide of the defenseless population of our capital," and later he launched an anti-Bosch whisper campaign throughout the country...
...yawns nowhere wider than in France, where 51 years of rent control have helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...