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...exceptions to this rule add further complications to November's balloting. The federal nature of our government causes party ideology to vary from state to state. In some elections a progressive Republican rates the nod over an unsavory Democratic candidate. But Republicans of the Stassen-Dirksen variety are far fewer than Democrats of the Monroney-Pepper-Mead mold. And, in the Congressional races at least, a mediocre Democrat is preferable to a mediocre Republican. A.G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature...
Perpertrators of this matidulinal outrage were some 30 members of the Harvard Band. No encores and fewer huzzas were accorded this unscheduled serenade, while a few of the more energetic Princetonians sought to end it by throwing whatever came to hand--shiny red apples in most cases--at the musicians. Aim was generally poor, however, and casualties incurred were negligible, according to prelimary reports, while a universally unsettling effect on the Orange and Black was observed...
From two travelers in the Ukraine last week came revealing glimpses of postwar Russia. One was John Fischer, associate editor of Harper's magazine, and member of an UNRRA mission which traveled in the U.S.S.R. with fewer restrictions than any foreign group has had in years. Concluding a series of articles on his trip in the current Harper's, Editor Fischer gives a vivid account of the men he found there. Excerpts...
Bernanos is trying to explore states of mind too private to be communicable. Few novelists could give flesh and blood to such a clutter of spiritual skeletons as inhabit the De Clergerie chateau; even fewer could use a teen-age girl as the symbol for an exalted faith without making her too good to be true. Joy is fair evidence of why Novelist Bernanos has never influenced many and yet has vigorously influenced...
...Last week, Drs. W. T. Sumerford and Eugene P. Odum of the University of Georgia reported on DPE, a DDT relative with fewer chlorine atoms in its molecule. Sprayed on water, it kills the unwanted mosquito larvae without killing fish...