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...birth, it may outgrow us and have little need of Britain." A group of 82 Labor M.P.s and another of 89 Tories, more than 25% of the House of Commons, got behind similar resolutions. The press, save only Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express, chorused fervent approval...
...time went on, exceptions, dissents, second thoughts were certain to chill the first fervent breath of approval. And time would indeed be required, at least ten years, perhaps 15, to convert the economic-union dream into working reality. A few weeks ago few would have predicted that the dream was feasible at all. After last week's discussion, however, Harold Macmillan's vision could be rated a distinct possibility...
Annigoni's letter drew a fervent "amen" from Bernard Berenson, dean (91) of Renaissance art experts: "It says everything I have been wanting to say for many years past about the iniquity of the way Italian pictures particularly are being skinned alive by restorers." Other letters pointed out various masterpieces in London's National Gallery which may have ceased to be masterpieces through too much cleaning. Among them: pictures by Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Velásquez, and even Leonardo's great Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo's figures, wrote one angry correspondent...
...disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
...Support the U.N." Watson was a passionate internationalist, a fervent supporter of the United Nations. He ordered that every outgoing IBM 'envelope bear the legend "Support the United Nations." He believed that education and religion were "the two things that have carried us over all our humps," that they deserved all the time and treasure he could spare...