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London's bobbies may or may not recognize themselves in an article by Author Mary McCarthy in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. Recounting London's Oct. 27 antiwar demonstration, Miss McCarthy writes that the bobbies prepared for the "Demo" by "sleeping in at the police station with a barrel of beer. It worried me that with all that beer the police might have hangovers the next day, which would make them irritable." But no. As it turned out, the "more inactive" police "were amused by the whole scene, especially since they were under...
...scene at Uppsala smacked more of a New Left "demo" than of a religious body in pious conference. Two student pickets who attempted a sidewalk teach-in were dragged off by Swedish cops. Some conferees slipped away to watch an underground flick replete with scenes of pot-smoking derelicts, shaggy folk singers and a minister who-in anguish at the chaos and cacophony of life in the cities-strips to the buff atop his pulpit. In other ways as well, the 701 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox delegates to the World Council of Churches' Fourth Assembly were exposed last week...
...antiwar "demo," the mood was almost festive. There were sloppily dressed youths from Brooklyn and The Bronx and acres of miniskirted thighs, but most of the marchers, dressed in business suits or neat uniforms, looked like the kind of people who think bananas are for eating...
There was no understatement in the document's conclusion. The six-member Committee on Standards and Conduct unanimously recommended that the Senate censure the Connecticut Demo crat for behavior that is "contrary to good morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a Senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute...
...might, quipped Minnesota's Republican Congressman Albert Quie, become an assistant secretary under Gardner. "Shriver and OEO," said Quie, "have failed." Unless the program is overhauled, echoed New York Republican Charles Goodell, who joined Quie in offering the Republicans' "Opportunity Crusade" as an alternative to the Demo cratic program, "Congress may well kill off the whole thing...