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...Labor's takes pride in past accomplishments as well: NOW BRITAIN'S STRONG LET'S MAKE IT GREAT TO LIVE IN. While Tories stress the lawand-order theme, Laborites, convinced that the electorate is surfeited with crisis and contention, deliberately keep the party's themes low-key and low-decibel. "I don't think they want a lot of change and disturbance and argy-bargy," Wilson said as the campaign opened. "I think they want quiet, strong government...
...Low-Key Celebration. In some quarters, including the U.S. State Department, there is deep concern that prolonged ARVN involvement in Cambodia could eventually upset Vietnamization. The Communists, meanwhile, have yet to substantiate a related criticism−that the Cambodian operation will directly imperil South Viet Nam. Across South Viet Nam last week, the enemy did try to mount a special one-day "high point" with rocket and mortar attacks on 64 towns and outposts. But even with nearly 60,000 U.S. and ARVN troops off in Cambodia, the sputtering high added up to a very low-key celebration...
Died. Herb Shriner, 51, low-key comic, whose homespun, Will Rogers-like style entertained a generation of Americans; with his wife Eileen when their car left the road and hit a tree while they were returning from a nightclub date; in Delray Beach, Fla. Shriner broke into vaudeville in the '30s with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave...
...they were thought to look to one another for mutual support. Dole told Nixon: "If Mrs. Smith would vote with us, maybe Cook would. Then Prouty would have to." Nixon invited Mrs. Smith to the White House for a talk the day before the final vote. He made a low-key pitch, handling her gingerly. She was noncommittal...
Even with occasional heated exchanges between some faculty and students, however, the meetings seemed notably subdued and low-key. In some meetings stu-dents directed the discussion while in others faculty members answered questions from the front of the classroom...