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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With prosperity rising and class lines blurring, the old socialist slogans are becoming bogeys, rather than attractions. Nationalization is now an electoral liability even among Laborite voters. Thus last Thursday, Ian Mikardo, vice-Chairman of the Labor Party and leader of the party left, lost his industrial seat to a Conservative. Where the promise of equality attracted votes before, the offer of opportunity is winning them...
...this situation, the old party battle between, moderates and radicals, intellectuals and unionists should intensify. Whatever the result, the Laborites clearly did not lose on Thursday because of Hugh Gaitskell, who ran a tough and expert campaign. Instead, the Labor Party lost because they failed to convince the voters that they offered a coherent and responsible alternative to a smoothly operating Tory government...
...assisted by a timely and needed Liberal revival. Although the Liberals secured only six seats, as in each of the past two contests, they ran twice as many candidates as in 1955 and received over twice as many votes. Many of these were clearly protest votes, largely drawn from old Laborites and new voters. Most Liberal platforms were broad statements of interest in the "little man" and appeals for the liberalization of trade...
Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Playwright-Producer Rod Serling's exercise in fantasy. This one brings back that old pitchman Ed Wynn to play an old pitchman trying to outwit "Mr. Death...
Retreating Species. Not only stars but starlings are now native to the lights of old Broadway, which provide heated dormitories for thousands of the birds every winter. And for the city-bound naturalist, nothing is more convenient than the hibernating habits of the big brown bat, who sleeps through the cold months in one wing of the Museum of Natural History. One of the joys of nature study, Kieran's book makes clear, is the fellowship of amateur and professional; most of the professionals in town roost, like the bats, at the museum...