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After the election, cultists believe that they will inherit the white man's magic to make goods materialize without doing any work. To show faith in their belief, some have killed their pigs in sacrificial offering; others have hacked airstrips out of the bush for the planes that will bring in the cargo...
...communique neglected to mention some differences of opinion-particularly in trade policy toward Communist nations. One thing that Home did inherit from Macmillan was a belief that Khrushchev has renounced nuclear war as an instrument of foreign policy, and that the West would be better served by dealing with a fat Communist than with a lean and hungry one. Home, therefore, is anxious to expand trade with Communism. Britain is holding elections this year, and the idea is politically popular. But Johnson disagreed with his thesis. And, as it happens, he too is up for election...
They also know, partly from the example the Southerners have set, that calculated departures from the seniority system are one of the few weapons they have to encourage party loyalty. Finally, they know that they, being more senior than most of their colleagues, will soon inherit choice committee chairmanships--if they can maintain patience with the present system! This argument would be likely to impress even Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), whose liberal reputation might well keep him from a voted committee chairmanship. If the present rules are maintained, however, he will receive a chairmanship that no one could contest, simply...
Another bleeding disorder that is similar in its effects on patients, but totally different in inheritance and incidence is von Willebrand's disease. This is the most common of a group of clotting disorders that are transmitted by genes on some other chromosome than the x-which chromosome, remains a mystery. But it is a nonsex chromosome, so boys and girls are equally likely to inherit the defective gene...
...whole lifetime and draws in detail a haunting character-part bounder, part victim, part humble appraiser of how badly he has played the hand that life has chosen to deal him. Blessed or not, Scott seems to say, the poor in spirit will never inherit the earth. But, possessed of the fewest illusions about themselves, they alone can afford to view the world with pure compassion...