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...time when Britain needed one. Last week Butler entered into the "closed season"-the two-week period when the Chancellor traditionally is cut off from the outside world and is left to think, and to give final shape to his budget in deepest secrecy. Every day, like a queen ant fussed over by faithful workers, Rab was closeted in his Treasury office. Evenings he worked until past midnight in his study, hung with Impressionist paintings from his father-in-law's collection...
...Illinois, worked his way through the University of Wyoming working on the local paper. During World War I, he was an infantry lieutenant, came back and got his first taste of Democratic politics as secretary to the state's Democratic Governor William B. Ross and later as assist ant to Democratic Senator John B. Kendrick. He has been in politics ever since, and is often accused of running a "one-party" (i.e., Democratic) press. To that he has an answer: although five of his seven dailies are proDemocratic, in the last election, despite his influence, the state went almost...
...Minus One: French Commanding Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
...devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced one of his cousins, then told the girl's accusing parents that "a person sitting on an ant-heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they...
...Does that mean it will be a Christmas of hard work, of spoils to the rugged individualist and nothing for the security-seeker? Christmas has traditionally been a season for the extension of largesse to the grasshopper who didn't store up the summer crops as well as the ant who did, a season of good will to all, Democrats and Republicans alike. Everyone has been able to share in Christmas: the carol-singers, the people who lovingly fendle Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as well as those who parody it but like it nonetheless; a religious holiday that has transcended...