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...Mayor John Lindsay switched to the Democrats last month, Monday gave him a sour sendoff. Lindsay, wrote Editor John Lofton Jr., 30, "left the Republican Party not because it was unresponsive to his liberalism, but because it was unresponsive to his ambition." Lofton predicted that the Lindsay switch would doom the candidacy of Senator George McGovern: "Hoping McGovern will hold on to the left-liberal youth vote in a primary contest with Lindsay is like hoping the fraternity brothers will prefer Snow White to Raquel Welch...
...sometimes they are destroyed by it. Losey shares with Playwright Harold Pinter, one of his most frequent collaborators, a fascination with the surfaces of illusion, with the means by which people delude themselves, and with the mechanics of their inevitable undoing. In earlier Losey-Pinter films, the catalysts of doom were generally characters of a certain ambiguous authority, like the gentleman's gentleman in The Servant or the young girl at Oxford in Accident. In their new film, The Go-Between, it is convention that plays the villain...
...Course of German History, Britain's A.J.P. Taylor advanced the debatable argument that Germany has always carried with it a special kind of doom, and that the horrors of Third Reich totalitarianism were utterly consistent with the nation's past. Now, in The 12-Year Reich, Richard Grunberger draws a chilling corollary: Hitler's accession in 1933, he contends, wrought no sudden or serious changes in the daily life and social institutions of Germany. Most Germans took to the swastika as naturally as they would to a new hiking path in the Schwarzwald...
...made remotely clear, but a reconciliation is brought about partly through their little daughter. Harris leaves, only to be trapped and tortured by McVey. When one of Harris' fingers is tossed before Collings like a medieval gage, he gallops off to save his drifter pal and meet his doom...
...engorged caterpillars to egg-laying moths, federal and state agencies are stepping up efforts to stop the pests "Spread."Inspectors face the thankless task of searching campers and trailers for gypsy moth eggs. Scientists hope to put out synthetic sex lures that attract libidinous male moths to traps and doom. When the lures were tested in Mississippi, says William H. Gillespie, chairman of the National Gypsy Moth Advisory Council in Charleston, W. Va., "all the male moths did was fly around and frustrate themselves. They never did find any gals to procreate with...