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Unflappable Harold Macmillan, who did not allow last week's events to interrupt his golfing vacation, will be able to present the government's case when Parliament reconvenes next week. He may yet, as in the past, confound his critics in Commons. But the affair may seriously affect the Tories' already shaky chances at the next elections, which Macmillan will now probably try to delay. Said Tory Backbencher Lord Lambton: "The harm this will do to the Conservative Party will be enormous. There has been for some time a general feeling of unrest in this country...
...adequate senator. His opponent might suffice in the House. But Teddy Kennedy, thirty years old, never held a job...you know the story...is taking odds like Liston. The hero knows how Hector felt, even if Teddy is no Achilles. The dilemma does not intimidate Lodge, but it must confound him: "Teddy is a nice fellow, I met him in Lagos. I'd be inclined to vote for him for District Attorney, but senator...
...Lord, confound this surly sister...
Although some would deny that coexistence is writ is the stars, it will shortly become dogms in the Soviet Constitution. Similarly, to confound disbelievers in the law of progress, American auto makers have decided to install safety belts in their '62 models. A world full of earnest men coexisting dogmatically and all wearing safety belts is perhaps a little too richly utopian for a generation taught to look at life gloomily--as if from the inside of someone's Better Mousetrap. Yet such a sunny world is emerging, and science has recently made a comforting discovery which ought to dispel...
...novelist and critic, who has delusions of heroism even as his unit is put to rout by the Germans. Running away, he still sees himself stemming the retreat, and when he reaches England in a small boat, he has no trouble seeing himself as an intelligence man who can confound the enemy. His boss, a psychiatrist in civilian life, gives him his chance...