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...death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship, strove to embody a new, impatient, class-defying England. The moral decay surrounding the Profumo affair, he tried hard to suggest, must be blamed on the Tories. Referring to Christine Keeler's reported $14,000-a-week nightclub contract, Wilson declared: "There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays...
...existence. They used two of the world's largest atom smashers, Brookhaven's Synchrotron and Berkeley's Bevatron, to fire negatively charged K mesons into a hydrogen bubble chamber. After the mesons collided with hydrogen nuclei, the scientists found two K mesons that were the decay products of an even more ephemeral particle. It has a life span of just 2/1 0,000th of a billionth of a billionth of a second-or just long enough to travel a few widths of an atomic nucleus at the speed of light. But its discovery carries the curious...
...wins are totally inexplicable; Harvard's losses, or at least its 9-1 decay before Northeastern, can be traced to three deficiencies--hitting, fielding, and pitching...
...predominantly residential streets are sprinkled with small business places set up in what used to be private houses. A homeowner can never be sure that somebody will not open a pool hall or an auto-body shop in the house next door. Lack of zoning has contributed to the decay of old neighborhoods, speeded up the flight to the sprawling new suburbs...
...this engaging second novel. Author James Stevenson, 33, displays Marquand's feel for the half rueful, wholly droll confrontation between the really wellborn and those who are merely born to do well. But he is less interested in dynastic decay than in dilettante dilemma. The islanders' big "fight McKinney" meeting bogs down in bickering about whether or not a mole has been gnawing at croquet court number three, and the whole argument becomes entirely academic when a pair of McKinney's bulldozers crash onto the court in the middle of the annual tournament. A hapless adulterer, surprised...