Mayer's Nest and Paris Reveries From A Pacifist Writer
The review surveys Milton Mayer's What Can A Man Do a collection of essays showing his pacifist socialist stance and sharp polemics. It highlights pieces on Robert Moris Lovett The Tomb church behind the iron curtain and Mayer's clashes with government agencies. It also praises minor essays and praise for the American Friends Service Committee and its leaders The Ritz of Paris by Stephen Watts is read with affectionate prejudice.
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Place Vendome Ritz history and famous patrons
The article surveys the Place Vendome in Paris tracing its founder Cesar Ritz his son Charles and current manager M Auzello. It notes the bar and bartender George Scheuer who served Hemingway during a jeep invasion era and mentions visits by Scott Fitzgerald and the Aga Khan among others.
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Education is for people not sacred cows in 1964 speech
Abner J. Mikva urges governors and teachers at the 1964 AF T convention to fund public education, criticizing road funding as a sacred cow. He links minority representation in state legislatures to underfunded schools and calls for majority rule and federal help to fix school financing.
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