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...married to Lily. For reasons known chiefly to her and her mother, Albertine Prince, Lily doubts her own claim to existence, to any existence at all. She muffles herself in a sonerous mysticism, away from those she thinks loath her. All the while her mother, for reasons known chiefly to her and her black lover, Henry Simpson, exercises a constitutional inability to love...
...people of Ward 4, where we canvassed, were very much decided. Ward 4 starts on Trow-bridge Street, spreads around the small doves' nest of SDSers on Dana Street, and ends somewhere in the hawkish territory of Central Square. Its residents are loath to be told, or even have suggested, what they ought to think about the war. Not that they are all openly hostile to the canvassers. "I believe that we're fighting for America, so that people like you will be free to hand out leaflets," said a patient old man in a straw...
...signing up in record numbers to support the bills, pushed a legislative ploy to accomplish it. The quota legislation ended up in Louisiana Democrat Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee as riders on a bill raising social security benefits 12.5%. The reasoning was that President Johnson would be loath to veto the social security provisions. Jubilantly, Oscar R. Strackbein, who as chairman of the Nationwide Committee for Import-Export Policy is the chief lobbyist for high tariffs and has been around Washington longer than many a legislator, predicted that this time trade restrictions would be adopted...
Quick Win or Fast Fade? But how? Under unremitting pressure from advocates of both the quick win and the fast fade, Johnson has hewed to this middle course all along. He is loath to ease the pressure, fearing that Hanoi would interpret such a move as a prelude to a pullout. He is also reluctant to risk any major intensification of the war, not only because it would entail vast additional expenditures and mobilization of the reserves, but because it might bring in Peking or Moscow. The President observed last week that he has not permitted bombing of Haiphong Harbor...
...committee was formed last Janu ary in the wake of Bishop James Pike's demand for a heresy trial to challenge those attacking him for speaking out against various hallowed doctrinal beliefs. The church was loath to take so drastic a step, instead named the committee of eleven clerics and laymen to advise the church's presiding bishop on the overall problem of freedom of inquiry within the church. It was headed by Bishop Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., 59, energetic former executive secretary of the Anglican Communion, presently director of the church's overseas department...