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...effort to give the TIME reader the best possible advance reading on the election, correspondents in every state considered all the political indicators they could put eye, ear and mind to. We studied polls, the estimates of knowing politicians adjusted for bias, the analyses of local newsmen, the balance of factors for and against each side-and then added to all that the judgments of the TIME correspondent, researcher, writer and editor. The result is what could best be described as a knowing estimate. We will be surprised if our conclusions turn out to be exactly right for every state...
...victorious Labor Party leaned farther to the left than was expected in setting up a government last week (see THE WORLD), its reassurances to private enterprise are typical of the change. Said Laborite Douglas Jay, new president of the Board of Trade: "This government starts with no prejudice or bias whatever against private business...
...eating's name from your list of moderate Republicans. This action is indeed strange, as it is all too often my father's name, not Sen. Keating's that is missing. The far-righters would never be guilty of such sin of omission. Again showing your pro-Democratic bias, you demean Sen. Keating's repudiation of the Republican national ticket, attributing it out of hand to expediency instead of principle. Had you been aware of the tremendous pressure, and vicious mail such a stand elicits, I am not sure you would have shrugged it off so easily. Then...
...Pattern. To overcome national bias and to broaden their markets, several defense companies are forming international joint ventures. French and British companies have joined to develop air-to-ground missiles. Last week the U.S.'s General Dynamics and France's C.S.F. established a Paris subsidiary called Sestro for the research and production of aerospace instruments. A new pattern of NATO armaments cooperation may be set by companies now seeking the contract for the $300 million NADGE (for NATO air defense ground environment) system, an electronic "fence" to be strung from Norway to Turkey. There are no jealous national...
...seen as unbearable and detestable when its natural savagery, passion and poetic lunacy are unconstrained by custom or civilizing institution. This view is seldom given a voice in fiction-even in realistic fiction of Cozzens' unfashionable kind. When institutions are matched against idiosyncrasy, writers have a temperamental bias in favor of the private sensibility...