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Captain Lawrence Orr de scribed Heath's plan as an "act of folly," and James Molyneaux charged that the Prime Minister had "done a Munich." The Unionists' opposition raised the possibility that they might retaliate by withholding their support on Common Market legis lation, thereby cutting into the Prime Minister's dan gerously thin majority on that issue. The Rev. Ian Paisley, a fiery Protestant leader and M.P., called from the Tory benches for complete integration of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. Right-wing Tories immediately cabled Queen Elizabeth, who was attending inde pendence-day celebrations...
...role, enlarged it, identified it with himself, and reamed out all its possibilities. Hence nobody else can play it: there is no act left to follow. Picasso's current work means little or nothing to other artists, and no living painters influence him. He inhabits an iso lation which is as extreme as his fame. The history of art, which Picasso brilliantly raided throughout his career, has now enfolded him. He is an Old Master before his death, contemplating the spectacle of a posterity which has already come...
...nominate one Man of the Year, so I'll have to name two: Dr. Norman Borlaug, the agricultural scientist who has developed a dwarf wheat that can give mankind a 20-year respite from famine; and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, head of Planned Parenthood-World Popu lation, which hopes to avert this famine by curtailing population growth...
...Fairleigh Dickinson, in Rutherford, N.J., the spy was Mrs. Linda Hobbie, an attractive 20-year-old girl enrolled in film arts, biology and oilpainting classes to keep an eye on a coed once arrested for a narcotics vio lation. Hired by county police, Mrs. Hobbie soon discovered that she liked the suspected pusher too well to report her, blew her cover by telling all to one of her profs...
...smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying to boost it into the big time. Circu lation eventually rose a paltry 1,600. In the same period, the Green Sheet's non-paying circulation shot from 115,000 to more than 200,000. In August the Cowles group faced the unhappy facts and sold...