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...Cabinet relegated to the role of a rubber stamp. Attlee, along with a small group in the Defense Sub-Committee of the Cabinet, made the crucial (for Labor party politics) decision to develop British nuclear weapons without consulting or informing the rest of his government. Sir Anthony Eden (a Conservative) worked out plans for Suez without informing his Cabinet of them, much less getting their approval. In both cases the Cabinet Ministers were bound--by the Catch-22 called collective responsibility--to support decisions in which they had no part. Britain had moved from Bagehot's Cabinet government to what...
After reconnoitering cloud-covered Venus with eight separate unmanned spacecraft-three American and five Russian, including two Soviet landing vehicles-scientists are now certain that De Fontenelle's Eden is, in fact, more like Dante's Inferno. Its surface temperature is a hellish 900° F. Its atmosphere, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, is at least 90 times as thick as the earth's, producing crushing surface pressures of 1,500 Ibs. per sq. in. Its clouds are laden with sulfuric acid. Yet a major mystery remains: Why has a planet so like the earth in size...
Dartmouth continued its passing assault in the second stanza. QB Teevens connected with wide receiver Jim Marcella for 47 yards. The Green gainer set up a four yard TD flicker to halfback Jim Eden for a commanding 21-0 Dartmouth bulge at intermission...
Died. Guy Mollet, 69, Socialist Premier of France from January 1956 to June 1957; following a heart attack; in Paris. In 1956, Mollet collaborated with Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the British-French attack on the Suez Canal in coordination with an Israeli invasion of the Sinai from the east...
...sure I could live in a plastic condominium with a wife I didn't love and lots of bratty kids . . . I wouldn't like it but it wouldn't drive me nuts," he writes, unaware of the brattiness implied by such conjecture. Yet in the end, Eden Express is a painfully honest document of a life in transition. The shift is even evident in the book's style. The early pages contain the sort of hippie jargon that franchises experience into junk food for thought. But by the end, Vonnegut has found a truer, more subdued...