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...many, the mood of New York evoked memories of wartime London, when Englishmen of all classes closed ranks before the common foe, the shared indignity. In the blackout, as in the blitz, no man was an island. A blanket on the ground, as Henry Moore recorded in his drawings of Londoners huddled in air-raid shelters, can be a great leveler. To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon...
...field of voting he feels that Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach should blanket the South with federal registrars, whose presence would encourage the Negro registrants...
...will not be an easy road to find. Smothered under the blanket of Lyndon Johnson's father-of-all-the-peopleism, the G.O.P. is statistically so far behind that many years may go by before it gets its head up. Top Republicans talk publicly of picking up 40 House seats next year; they would happily settle for 20, which would bring the Democrats down to a still overwhelming majority of 275 to 160. Only by a turnover that surpasses imagination could the G.O.P. gain a bare majority of the Senate; Republicans would have to beat all 19 Democratic Senators...
...These blanket condemnations lump together a variety of different phenomena, each requiring a very different response...
...elections hinged on local issues. But the rigid anti-inflationary policies of the Federal government have put a hard squeeze on Brazil's working population, whose wages are being held down while the cost of living continues to rise. So while the defeat of government candidates was not the blanket condemnation of the new regime that it might seem, it still indirectly indicated strong currents of disapproval of government policy. Thus in the three states where national issues were at stake: Minas Gerais, Guanabara, and Goias, the Federal government's candidates were defeated...