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Wayne Hays was unavoidably detained, but nearly a score of other Congressmen made the trip to London, and so, after suitable ceremonies, Magna Carta reached America's shores last week. Actually, the huge Capitol Hill contingent returned to Washington with a gold facsimile ten days before the document itself was flown over...
...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...
...beyond that, the pickings were pretty dismal. The opening sequence, implicitly indicting the British for the whole problem, was too cute and facile. The time spent in Meah Shearim, the Jerusalem quarter of the ultra-orthodox, and in anti-Zionist Naturei Carta, was overlong and boring, chiefly because it had no point, despite the implied connection with a voice-over talking about the anti-godliness of early Zionism. And all the little shots of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which so delighted me must have been a crashing bore for those in the audience who had never visited Israel. The photography...
...seems that America is experiencing the divine right of kings under its President. Is a new Magna Carta needed...
...world trade talks scheduled to start in Tokyo in September. First reactions in Congress, where Mills is little short of all-powerful on economic matters, were favorable; New York Republican Representative Barber Conable, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, said that the proposals could be "our magna carta of trade." More important, Nixon has been weaning AFL-CIO Chief George Meany away from the much more protectionist Burke-Hartke Bill. A Nixon-Mills-Meany alliance would be practically unstoppable...