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...judge from such disgruntled commentary, the holiday season is not what it used to be in U.S. magazines. Good cheer has given way to gloom; the champagne has gone flat. Santa Claus has been replaced by a somber psychoanalyst with a bag full of cures for year-end anxieties. It would almost seem that publication schedules for the monthlies had forced year-end issues to be made up too far in advance; the festive mood may have been unattainable in plans made in July. To be sure, many magazines carried the familiar religious pictures and sentimental sermons. Yet McCall...
Around 10,000 fans huddled under umbrellas and trenchcoats in the soggy gloom at the Stadium Saturday and watched a sluggish Harvard football team plod to a 24-7 victory over Brown...
Imaginary Line. For all the gloom, there was one bright spot last week. A Sikh state was officially created out of a part of Punjab, and its birth brought forth none of the communal rioting that had earlier been feared. The new state marked the end of a 19-year campaign by India's 7,000,000 Sikhs for a territory of their own. Jawaharlal Nehru resisted the demand mainly on the ground that such a state would be essentially a religious entity. But the Sikhs argued that they were the only ones among India's 14 major...
...years both Tory and Labor politicians have considered the British auto industry a handy tool for manipulating the economy. Thus the industry has careened along from boom to gloom, with government, labor and management all wrestling at the controls. Last week the auto business was skidding from the effects of the ninth major switch during the past decade in the government's policy on car sales...
permitted her sanctum of polished gloom...