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Prior to his accession to party leadership, Heath was President of the Board of Trade. He also was Britain's top negotiator when the MacMillan government attempted to gain entrance into the Common Market. Britain's application was vetoed in January, 1963, by French President Charles De Gaulle in what was described as the "humiliation of Brussels...
...glamour boy of the podium are behind him, the long slender hands still dance like birds when he conducts, the silver mane still shakes in splendid disarray, the great craggy profile still sparks a response. And as always, he still juggles the orchestra's seating arrangements to gain special effects, still edits Beethoven and Brahms to suit his own taste...
Catholic missionaries made a fruitless attempt to acquire converts in Burma during the 16th century, but Christianity did not really gain a foothold until 1722, when two Barnabite priests from Italy started preaching in Ava and Pegu. The first Protestant missionaries landed in 1807. Six years later came the great American Baptist Adoniran Judson, "the Apostle of Burma." Born in Massachusetts, he spent 37 years in Burma-including 17 months in prison, part of the time in shackles, during the country's 1824-26 war with Britain. It was Judson who first translated the Bible into Burmese. Relatively unsuccessful...
Mixed Feelings. Most editors echo the reporters' pleasure. "Schooling causes only a short-term disruption of the staff," says Chicago News Managing Editor Creed Black, "but it offers a long-term gain." Detroit News City Editor Boyd Simmons agrees: "I can more confidently send out a man on a complicated story like water pollution when I know he has refined his own technical equipment to deal with it." The Washington Post is so impressed with advanced education that it paid for a year's study at Harvard for its Supreme Court reporter...
...though many freshmen still show surprising strength, most political analysts expect Democrats to lose from 20 to 50 seats, Thus, there is a possibility that the Republicans will wipe out the 40-seat gain of 1964, although they are extremely unlikely to win the 77 seats they need to control the House...