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Peabody's do-good campaign alienated many Democratic professionals. But Volpe offended some voters by refusing to debate with Peabody, even though Peabody's ad-lib remarks frequently are confusing enough to prompt the crack: "He played football too long without a helmet...
Some Liberal policies are shared by Labor-notably their conviction that Britain should scrap its costly, prestigious' Hbomb arsenal in hopes of halting the spread of nuclear weapons. In the past, party officials have seriously discussed pooling forces to put up "Lib-Lab" candidates at the next election. However, Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond last week took full advantage of the Socialists' disastrous disarray on Common Market membership. Pressing home his bluntest attacks yet on Labor, Grimond declared: "The Labor Party is losing its soul-just as the Liberals are gaining their feet...
Eager as the world's press was to help Hollywood to the glory of blame ("Sodom!" cried Libération from Paris), it could not match Hollywood's own enthusiasm for its role as the guilty...
...lives outside of South Africa. The Liberal Party magazine Contact is no longer able to print articles by Party Leader Patrick Duncan, who edits it from exile in Basutoland. Actor-Playwright Cecil Williams may appear in other people's plays−as long as he does not ad-lib−but no one can appear in his. Two Capetown city councilors are allowed to attend council meetings, but their remarks must be left out of the record. No one may publish cross-examination−or even scholarly legal briefs−by Abraham Fischer, defense counsel in South Africa...
...there were 40 Midwesterners lined up to be in a picture who wouldn't have been seen dead with him a year ago." Baffling Fact. Flying back to Albany in his private, twin-engined Beechcraft, Rockefeller still seemed baffled by the fact that he should be considered a lib eral, as opposed to a conservative, Republican. "I," said Millionaire Rockefeller, "have as much to conserve as any one." But he had had a good week, and he knew...