Think of Texans as proud yet humbled (Texans humbled? Yes, humbled), as conquerors and conquered, as people plunging gustily forward yet remembering where grandparents are buried. But there are Anglo-Saxon Texans, slave-descended Texans, Spanishand Indian-descended Texans. A historian of Texas here tells how they all coalesce into a kind of separate nationhood while being very much a part of the U.S.A.
For people with tax problems, Swiss banks have always been an attractive solution, and it is no secret that many film stars, prosperous businessmen, and political potentates use the Swiss “numbered accounts” in order to protect their financial resources from tax collectors, fiscal catastrophe, and the shifting winds of political favoritism. T. R. Fehrenbach, whose book on the Swiss banks will be published in the fall by McGraw-Hill, is a lieutenant colonel in the Civil Affairs branch of the USAR. His history of the Korean War, THIS KIND OF WAR,published in 1963, was a book-club selection and best seller.