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...attributed to the attitude of the press. Most major California newspapers opposed Goldwater, including the staunchly Republican Los Angeles Times, which campaigned against him on Page One. Nearly all of the scores of reporters visiting California for the campaign thought that Rockefeller would win, wrote endlessly of the élan in his camp and of the pall of gloom hanging over the Goldwater forces. Some of this stemmed from the personal political predilections of many of the newsmen. But it was more than that-for, to the reporter who did nothing more than travel around with the candidates, the atmosphere...
...deep and dangerous division between Canada's English-speaking majority and its French-speaking minority centered in the province of Quebec. To English Canadians, the Union Jack is a cherished symbol of Canada's strong allegiance to the mother country. But to French Canadians-with their own lan guage, Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity-the Union Jack is an ugly reminder of Quebec's forcible conquest by England in 1759, and what they regard as their own second-class status ever since...
Cliffies have reversed a recent trend and decided that elegance lan't so non-U after all. South House will hold the college's first formal dance in two years this Saturday night...
...with 229,485 injured. If U.S. motorists killed at a similar rate, U.S. traffic deaths would amount to 120,000 a year instead of the actual 42,600 annually. The road slaughter is not completely the fault of inadequate highways, but often results from French élan. It is common in France to speed up as soon as you discover that the car behind you is trying to pass. The unofficial code of the chevalier de la route then requires that the second car must relentlessly pursue the first until it can finally get by, preferably by cutting...
...public wants to be told. The results have not always been happy. The new men, in particular the very young new men, have turned out miles of absolutely asinine acetate, and whover wirtes thos subtilise ouhgt to be shto. Nevertheless, with stunning consistency, with the fire and élan of spirits snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited...