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...Everyone else in the room stares at the men with their hands up; two or three arms are lowered again. The room is hot with unspoken tension. But the mayor and the battalion officers look pleased as they declare the meeting closed. With obvious relief, the men of Bamban drift away...
...Chavez brothers-Candidate David and U.S. Senator Dennis-this meant the failure of an elaborate hope for a Chavez dynasty in New Mexico. For the Democratic Party, without its customary portion of vote-getting Spanish names, it meant that "native" voters might drift back to the Republican Party (where they had been before they became what one politician calls WPA Democrats). If enough switch over, they might hand the governorship to the Republicans in November. "It could be," admitted one worried Anglo Democrat, "that they'll give us the old adios this year...
...fact is that federal money has already entered the field. As Brown's President Wriston has warned, "federalization of American higher education is coming by drift [if] not by design," whether educators approve of it or not. Such federalization is taking the form, no longer of a G.I. bill, but of $100 million worth of research contracts. "It is a matter for deep concern," says Wriston, "that already . . some independent, private institutions are (directly or indirectly) drawing half or more of their revenues from federal sources...
...partial return for such cultural legacies as Shakespeare's plays, the British Common Law and fish & chips, the U.S. has transmitted to Britain in recent years a passion for the 100%-American chocolate milk shake and double frosted. Last October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...
Another danger of the current rainmaking boom in the Southwest is that the silver iodide particles, invisible and almost undetectable, may drift to the humid eastern part of the country (which often has too much rain) and cause damaging floods. Langmuir cannot prove that this has happened; the new technology of "meteorological engineering" is still too young to draw such definite conclusions...