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...days earlier, already under pressure to smash the I.R.A., Faulkner had flown to London for a secret meeting with British Prime Minister Edward Heath. Faulkner and Heath agreed to invoke the special powers of preventive detention-i.e., imprisonment without trial-for suspected subversives. Heath attempted to divert suspicion of impending emergency action by going back to his yachting immediately. A few days later he led Britain to victory in the internationally contested Admiral's Cup races...
People Blight. Even so, to come this far 4-H has already moved piles of rural conservatism. Agricultural lobbies, including the purebred cattlemen's associations, mistrust urban 4-H programs because they divert extension experts from the agribusiness. The governing board of this year's Indiana State Fair has not provided space for several displays produced by the new urban projects. Although the fair managers plead that the programs are still too insignificant to be represented, to State Leader Frickey the omission is symptomatic. "They'll have an exhibit on corn blight, and that's fine...
...than a religious Woodstock. It cuts across nearly all the social dividing lines, from crew cut to long hair, right to left, rich to poor. It shows considerable staying power: many who were in its faint beginnings in 1967 are still leading it. It has been powerful enough to divert many young people from serious drug addiction. Its appeal is ecumenical, attracting Roman Catholics and Jews, Protestants of every persuasion and many with no religion at all. Catholics visit Protestant churches with a new empathy, and Protestants find themselves chatting with nuns and openly enjoying Mass. "We are all brothers...
...orders. The rules also permit other airlines that fly the same routes to adopt similar prices in order to compete. Pan Am, the only U.S. carrier with direct service to Brussels, quickly followed Sabena and set an identical rate. Then the French government, fearing that the Belgian action would divert Paris-bound Americans to Brussels, promptly ordered Air France to introduce a $220 New York-Paris round-trip fare. This in turn permitted TWA, which flies into Paris, to do the same...
...could start anywhere; let's start concretely.The hero is a landlord still living off rents; he does not work. He keeps a huge modern apartment full of luxury items which obsess him more than they divert him. He is imprisoned by conspicuously useless memory-laden objects-his wife's dresses, his own collection of sculpture and painting, the very size of his rooms. These keep him from understanding his life; they keep him thinking about surplus value subjectively and purely in itself, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said in a drunken Marxist moment...