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Senator Goldwater's acceptance speech last night was more than just a bad speech. That it a long, disgusting--often meaningless--string of platitudes, empty words, and obscure philosophical meanderings is hardly worth mentioning. The tepid reaction he received from a hall-full of his most ardent supporters is eloquent testimony to this fact. But what is much more worrisome is what he was thinking last night while he was mouthing such nothings. Not one specific issue or controversy was mentioned in the Senator's speech. It was obvious, however, that his supporters were thinking of specifics when they gave...
...hints, suggestions and commands were rarely followed, but that only increased their volume-and the irritation of Asahi's editors. When members of a Japanese Antarctic expedition radioed home that an advance party was in trouble and might have to abandon their dogs, Mrs. Murayama, who is an ardent dog lover, ordered the paper to contact the expedition. Tell them to rescue the dogs, she said, and, if necessary, to abandon the Japanese. Asahi's editors refused. They also refused when she demanded a Page One story on her experience at an art show attended by Emperor Hirohito...
Died. Clarence Frederick Lea, 89, longtime (1916-1948) Democratic Congressman from northern California, an ardent believer in Government regulation of industry, who co-authored bills expanding the Pure Food and Drug Act and establishing the Civil Aeronautics Authority, won his greatest success in 1946 with a law, upheld by the Supreme Court, curbing Music Union Czar James C. Petrillo and his outrageously featherbedding musicians; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...second novel (after a pair of anti-Stalinist short stories) is slighter and shorter, but the target is still recognizable. The concentration camps are no longer in evidence, but the Stalinist greasy-collared thugs have only turned into white-collar bureaucrats: bald, corpulent, obtuse paper shufflers. Their opponents are ardent provincial youths who scoff at party propaganda and joke about the Virgin Lands program-but who eagerly take direct action, in the old "Hero of Labor" tradition, to build themselves a new school. Just as they are fitting the final doorknob, word comes that the party plans to take over...
...children ardent for some desperate glory...