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...apparently reckoned that the steel-nationalization issue-one of the Labor Party's surviving oldtime doctrinaire goals-would unite his divided party. But Veteran Labor M.P. George Strauss, who in 1948 piloted the Labor Government's original steel-nationalization bill through Commons, was critical of the measure. Desmond Donnelly and Woodrow Wyatt, the moderate Labor M.P.s who last year bedeviled Wilson's attempts to nationalize steel (TIME, May 14, 1965), again sniped nastily from the backbenches...
...Died. Desmond Young, 74, British author who, as a World War II press officer in North Africa and later as a German P.W., was so mightily impressed by the style and tactics of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps that in 1950 he wrote a bestselling biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, which stirred a whirlwind of controversy over its profuse praise for the German field marshal; of a heart attack; on the British Channel island of Sark...
ANGEL EYES (Columbia). Dave Brubeck's quartet plays Matt Dennis' songs without words, although Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond seems to speak sweet somethings in Violets for Your Furs, and Brubeck makes some conventional but well-turned pianistic comments on The Night We Called...
...doings at city hall. The Reporter was the first Catholic journal to expose a confidential order from the Apostolic Delegate limiting ecumenical contact with Protestants, the first to publish the membership list of the Pope's birth-control commission. Its reporting on Vatican II, by James Johnson and Desmond O'Grady, has been consistently discerning in conveying the moods and trends of the council...
...Smith in charge of organization, the Rhodesian Front sprouted like mealies on the veld at Gatooma. All the rightist fringe groups, including the Dominion Party of Contractor William John Harper (now Internal Affairs Minister), got into the act, as did such present powers as South Africa-born Lawyer Desmond Lardner-Burke