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...Wilson's greatest achievement," says one Laborite, "has been to allay the suspicions about the party of those voters in the middle. Hitherto they had regarded Labor as too strident and shrill." Some critics complain Labor has all but abandoned its old idealism and has adopted a more conservative approach to government. As Labor M.P. Chris topher Mayhew writes in his book, Party Games: "The older and the younger generation of natural leftists have, in fact, lost hope in the Labor Party. The older generation feels that much of our purpose has been fulfilled; the younger generation feels that...
...Female (1953), were the first serious attempts to analyze quantitatively the variety and nature of "orgasmic encounters." Kinsey's data were flawed by the narrow range of his interviewed sampling and by his determinedly mechanistic approach to the subject of sex. Nonetheless, his research legitimized the study of a hitherto taboo subject. Says Masters: "He opened the door. We wanted to kick it all the way open...
...Kennedy may have a brand-new plot to play with. In Chicago last week, Legal Researcher Sherman H. Skolnick filed suit in federal district court against the National Archives and Records Service to release certain documents. He contended that the archives had unlawfully squirreled away the details of a hitherto unknown plot or plots to kill J.F.K. at the Nov. 2, 1963, Army-Air Force game in Chicago, 20 days before his assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald...
...said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further...
...until last fall, when Laotian government troops surprised themselves and most observers by pushing the North Vietnamese and their Pathet Lao allies off the strategic Plain of Jars. Last month the Communists struck back, and what worries many U.S. officials is that they might go on to attack hitherto sacrosanct Laotian government positions south and west of the Plain...