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...present reaction to the draft is that Viet Nam is a limited war that has not yet demanded the full strength of the U.S., and therefore requires only a certain number of the nation's eligible men. Today's draftee may feel not only the normal dismay at going into the service but resentment at having been singled out while others in roughly similar situations escape. With better reason than usual, he may ask; Why me? "The way things are now," said one Manhattan inductee, "half go and half luck...
...Roosevelt? At first, some Westerners gasped in dismay at Mrs. Gandhi's election. They remembered her as the darling of India's left-wingers,the friend of Firebrand Krishna Menon, and the Prime Minister's willful daughter who stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
...order Danish pastry in Copenhagen and people will shrug their shoulders in dismay. They call it Vienna bread. Ask for vichyssdise in Vichy: until recently the French waiter said blankly, "Pardon?" And why should he know? It was invented in 1917 by Louis Diat, the chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel to take advantage of all those extra potatoes...
...flatfooted dismay with which enlightened liberal opinion in this country and Britain first greeted the coup in Nigeria is no doubt due to the complexity of politics in that country. An enlightened liberal who has mastered the names of Nigeria's four regions, two electoral coalitions, four major parties (there are lots of little ones), three major tribes (not to mention six semi-major and more than 200 minor ones), and top twelve political leaders, and who has dutifully memorized the phrase "Nigeria, symbol of democracy in tropical Africa", has surely exhausted his capacities for the assimilation of detail...
...with the new "villages." The sign on the gate said, "No children, no dogs"; there were shuffleboard courts, hobby shops, a bingo game every evening, and to many an oldster, it seemed as close to heaven as they cared to get. But there were other oldsters who viewed with dismay the thought of living out their remaining years in a ghetto of the aged, however comfortable its appointments or however lush its garden plots. In stead of putting themselves out to pasture, they preferred to remain in the hurly-burly of the megalopolis, where they could be close...