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...more vigorous conservative than Bill Blakley. Liberal Democrats also voted for Tower-for different reasons. With Blakley out, much more federal patronage will go to the liberals' darling in Washington, Senator Ralph Yarborough (who pointedly did not endorse Blakley). More important, Tower's victory was certain to hasten the coming of a true two-party system in Texas-with conservatives swinging over to the Republican banner, and the liberals gaining more power in Democratic ranks...
...Koestler the closest thing possible to death, and the practice of Yoga is "a systematic conditioning of the body to conniving in its own destruction, at the command of the will, by a series of graduated stages." Koestler erroneously thinks that the "Christian ascetic mortifies his body to hasten its return to dust."* This, he holds, at least has the merit of directness over the yogi's "prodigious detour. He must build up his body into a superefficient, super-sentient instrument of self-annihilation...
...Orthodox Christian asceticism is designed to subdue the body rather than hasten its death...
...issue of who should administer a youth service program extends beyond private foundations and the U.S. government to the United Nations. If the "Peace Corps" idea met with favor, other countries, from both the Western alliance and the Soviet bloc, might hasten to join. As the recent General Assembly showed, the neutral nations have considerable respect for the U.N. and conversely, suspicions about either of the great power blocs. If the "Peace Corps" were a U.N. organ, three problems would be alleviated: (1) youth from all nations could join a single organization, (2) neutral countries would accept a U.N. delegation...
...even allowed to talk to De Gaulle, and his father angrily recalled him to Tunis. Last week, out of patience with De Gaulle and under pressure from the pro-Algerian sympathies of his people, President Bourguiba exploded. "Nothing will stop me from doing or accepting anything which may hasten the liberation of Algeria, even if this liberation is due to Russian initiative...