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...five years the Socialist Union, a group of right-wing Labor intellectuals sometimes jeeringly called "Gaitskell's household troops," have been trying to work out a "modern" interpretation of Socialist dogma to cope with the fact that Socialist theory is out of date and Karl Marx a political handicap. In a recent book called Twentieth Century Socialism, the "household troops" made some startling admissions. Nationalization of industry, the magic tool that was to transform society, had, they conceded, lost its magic: "There is no longer the confidence that a change in ownership is enough to insure that an industry...
...late William Woodward Jr. and blinkers beside his eyes to keep his mind on his work, Leslie Combs's Nashua ran one of the best races of his career to put away Mrs. Jan Burke's dedicate and win the 70th running of Belmont's Suburban Handicap...
...Carrying 130 lbs. in the Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park, California-bred Swaps responded to one whack of Willie Shoemaker's bat and galloped to a new world record of 1 minute 39 seconds for the mile-and-a-sixteenth course. It was Swaps's second world record in his last two starts: he snapped Citation's six-year-old mile record two weeks ago with a mark...
...idyllic behind the gleaming white walls of Soestdijk Palace. Prince Bernhard's German birth was a handicap to him among some of his wife's subjects, even though he worked long and hard in England to weld the Dutch resistance forces into an effective unit during World War II. He liked the gay life and fast cars; his Queen was motherly, deeply religious and serious. In 1947 the couple faced a domestic tragedy in the birth of their fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Ma-rijke). As a result of German measles suffered by her mother during pregnancy...
Professional Handicap. In New York City, the Daily News carried a classified ad: "Funeral Parlor, established 45 years, fully equipped, selling due to death...