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...that all whites must unite behind him or be dispossessed by the Bantu usually gets a standing ovation and cries of "Hear, hear!" In Parliament, the once powerful United Party has been reduced to 39 seats. As an opposition party, Verwoerd once described it as "nothingness-both topless and bottomless." He is not far off. Its leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, offers vague motions against the methods of apartheid, but is a firm believer in racial segregation. Police have all but destroyed Novelist Paton's once active Liberal Party by arresting or confining its leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...will hold for the next twelve months, the new president, Dr. Charles Hudson, a Cleveland internist, counseled moderation. "There are people who think doom is going to fall in on us," he said. "I think this opinion is not justified. We are not stepping off the brink into a bottomless pit of professional destruction and despair." He proposed that doctors "make the most of this new program." If they do, he suggested, they may help "prevent its extension toward a national health service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors: The A.M.A. & Medicare | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...Keyes's books are not really worth reading, why do so many people read them? The answer, to borrow yet another gem from the author's bottomless thesaurus, is not far to seek. Mrs. Keyes's disciples are predominantly women who prefer to take their history with heavy doses of high romance. The Keyes have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wane in Spain | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

With a seemingly bottomless campaign treasury-estimated as high as $2,000,000-Shapp saturated the air waves with more than 7,000 radio spots, 34 half-hour TV shows in prime time, and so many TV shorts that aides lost count. Mailboxes were filled with provocative, well-prepared pamphlets setting out Shapp's views on expanding the state's economy and improving education: "I've been accused of buying the election," the candidate acknowledged at one point. "I'm not buying. I'm selling myself. It does cost money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: Starting at the Top | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...week's visit to Saigon, Javits rose on the floor of the Senate to declare that "the President would and should have the support of the overwhelming majority of the American people if he decides to resume the limited bombing." Challenging Mansfield's recent jeremiad foreseeing a "bottomless Asian land war," Javits argued that "militarily, the situation is at least encouraging"; that "the impact of our buildup is just beginning to be felt," and that most South Vietnamese now believe, as they plainly did not a year ago, that the Viet Cong will be defeated-possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The String Runs Out | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

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