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...Edward Heath in a television speech last week took his case for entry into the Common Market to the British people. His approach, which was expressed more fully in a White Paper that he personally presented to the House of Commons, was a startling departure from the postwar British norm. Ever since their "finest hour" in the 1940s, the British have shied away from stirring rhetoric and appointments with history as if they were too drained by earlier exertions to cope with monumental actions or decisions...
...Secretary, however, went out of his way to indicate that the Administration has given up hope of returning any time soon to full employment, which most economists define as a 4% unemployment rate. He derided as a "myth" the idea that a 4% jobless rate should be considered the norm for the economy, accurately noting that in the past 25 years the nation has reached that level for a full year only in wartime. This position represented retreat for the Administration, which in 1970 suggested that it was aiming for a 3.8% rate in early...
...childless authors. From Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, the phenomenon persists. The incidence is too high to be coincidental. Perhaps the writers substitute audience for family. Perhaps, like Beatrix Potter, they seem more comfortable in the domain of childhood, where fantasy is the norm and reality the intruder...
Illogical Decision. On hand to receive this plaudit was Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the man who in 1968 ordered troops from Russia and four other Warsaw Pact nations to invade Czechoslovakia. Confronted then by a popular, heavily publicized deviation from the socialist norm in Czechoslovakia, the Russians misjudged it. They let the Prague Spring reach full blossom, then felt compelled to crush it. Now, three years afterward, outside criticism of Soviet ham-handedness has largely faded. Thus last week's congress turned into a Brezhnev victory: he responded beamingly to Husák's "sincere thanks...
...this nation gone mad? Can a convicted murderer of women and children really become a folk hero? Are we to believe that murder without military reason is the norm for our armed services...