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...events in the Soviet Union, Britain and Communist China, following news of the Jenkins affair in rapid succession, seemed to overshadow it and to highlight the sorts of crises that would ordinarily figure to favor an incumbent President during an election year...
...steel industry and possibly the trucking business. Wilson has also promised to modify the private ownership of land so as to prevent speculation-and of course he has vast housing and pension schemes. To accomplish all this he intends to set up a superministry of planning, which will overshadow the established economic departments (Treasury, Board of Trade). But it is highly unlikely that Wilson will be able to accomplish much of this in the near future. Quite apart from his precarious parliamentary position, he has urgent problems to take care of, notably the balance-of-payments crisis and the weakening...
...incumbent Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader, Sir Alec Douglas-Home might seem the automatic safe choice, but he isn't. His experience in foreign affairs does not compensate for his almost perfect ignorance of economics. He must depend on the competence and experience of his chief ministers to overshadow the talents of the Labour Party's "one-man band," Harold Wilson...
...Whelchel's play, fine as it was, should not overshadow the unusually good first game Harvard played. McCluskey winding up with 109 yards, Poe with 71, Grant 55 and Conway 35. Yovicsin has found a wonderful fullback in Conway, a big, fast guy whose vicious blocks cleared the way for the end sweeps...
...ever there was a trial by newspapers," he said, "this was a perfect example. Public officials, the courts and the jury are unable to perform their proper functions when the news media run rampant, with no regard for their proper role. Freedom of the press cannot be permitted to overshadow the rights of an individual to a fair trial...