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...Republican Depression" still harsh in the minds of millions, 38% of U.S. voters still identified themselves as Republicans v. 42% as Democrats. Today, 53% consider themselves Democrats, a beggarly 25% as Republicans. Such is the Republican plight that some pundits-including a few Democrats awash in enough tears to float a couple of crocodiles -have bewailed the imminent end of the two-party system. Already, wrote Richard Rovere, the U.S. has come to "a one and one-half party system...
...neatly managed to hold onto the nation's highest office - primarily by nudging aside everyone who could have taken it away from him. Rather than lead the country, charge his critics, Kasavubu just sits on the terrace of the presidential mansion "watching the bodies of his enemies float past in the Congo River below." Last week who should go floating past but his fourth Premier, Moise Kapenda Tshombe...
...residents of North Harvard will carry their flight into the streets Tuesday with a float in the Columbus Day Parade. They have entered a float depicting bull-dovers demolishing their homes. It will consist of a truck carrying a banner saying "North Harvard Street" and towing a house with a bulldozer behind it. Stevan F. Goldin '64-4 said yesterday that hope this will dramatize the issue before all of Boston...
...fined $10,000 as an unregistered agent for Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, launched his new magazine Status. It had pieces by Lucius Beebe and Cleveland Amory, who go all the way back to Café Society, and some instructions on giving yourself the "Go-Go-ciety look" ("float about carefree in tiny doll dresses") or the "soignée Society presence" ("three sets of fake lashes, two above, one below...
...then one day, after a symbolic and gloriously silly baptism in an oily-slimy estuary, he strides sopping and transfigured into what may or may not be a religious vision: "He saw the ball of shining fog float ever so slowly along until it caught up with him. Now he walked in the ball of fire, in the feeling that at last he could stop fighting. He surrendered. He had no anxiety. He gave. He floated and gave, like a cloud breathing out light." Somehow, after that, Hedges can both love and loathe. He loathes his ex-wife and publicly...