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...pall of dejection hung over the Harvard side of the Stadium, making what was an already gloomy enough Saturday afternoon even gloomier. It was only moments into the Harvard-Dartmouth game, but Crimson fans were already fidgeting in their seats, secretly moaning, "Oh no, not again...
Having made his point-in gloomier words than have been uttered recently by any other statesman, including U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -Giscard then turned political leader and tried to offer solutions that might stave off the catastrophe. Although Giscard contended that France was in a better position than some other countries, he discarded the old Gaullist emphasis on national sovereignty and talked of interdependence among nations. He repeatedly used the French word concertation, which means cooperation and coordination, to describe the goal of France's new, post-Gaullist policy...
...light of the qualified mandate, Wilson's Laborites were understandably restrained in their celebrations. "It is going to be a very, very hard slog for a couple of years," the returned Prune Minister said, referring to an economy that is buffeted by ever gloomier news of combined inflation and recession almost every day. "It is going to be a hell...
...technological advances that are opening up the sea frontier have caused a legal and political nightmare. But they are also spurring revisions of the gloomier forecasts of the Club of Rome and the other doomsayers about the ability of man to continue to find fuel to burn, food to eat and materials to build with -in peace...
Some analysts interpreted the vote as a slap at Labor's attempt to transform conservative Australia into a welfare state, plus a protest against inflation, which has more than doubled in the year that Whitlam has been Prime Minister. The independent Melbourne Age offered an even gloomier interpretation. It saw an "ominous precedent" in the vote, noting that the last time a Labor government had ruled the country, its ouster (in 1949) was preceded by a similar rejection of a referendum over the issue of federal control of prices...