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Watching the Force. The new congressional attitude was more than a fiscal rebellion. It represented a subtle shift in sentiment since the 1956 election-from action to inaction, from do something to don't rock the boat. Even the Democratic National Committee, meeting in Washington, caught the fever. Receiving a plea from Americans for Democratic Action for adequate civil rights legislation, the committee quickly decided the message fell under the heading of "information," required no action. Instead, committeemen enthusiastically applauded the idea of making a big issue out of tax cuts...
...when Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies sanctioned a shipment of scrap to Japan, shocked Australians nicknamed him "Pig Iron Bob." When war came, a fever of Jap hatred swept Australia, and lingered on for a decade. As Menzies said: "You only have to mention the word Japanese for it to be worth three headlines." Last week Menzies was making three headlines and more, after a trip to Japan...
...past four or five years we have had these attacks with all the regularity of an annual case of spring fever. And now, once again-to use a great mixed metaphor-'The crape-hangers are crying wolf in the marketplace.' " So said Ford Edsel Division General Sales Manager J. C. Doyle last week, commenting on the curious psychology of businessmen and the U.S. public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used...
Clocker Spanielle, the CRIMSON'S sporting prognosticator, roused himself from his winter torpor and let out an anguished howl. An acute case of spring fever had caused him to miss the opening of the baseball season...
...point Novelist Nicholson keeps his story of reckless love under perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make...