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...There is not much time left, and there is a question whether they can devise a system to save the Americans and the South Vietnamese in danger to whom we do owe our aid. Reischauer said...
...much does PBH owe to the Cambridge community...
...Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support for an opponent is a token of what has happened to Singer's campaign. The impossible dream of an energetic upstart with a lot of nerve has turned into the most serious challenge to Daley...
...laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath in the early '60s. The difference, however-and some fear that it may prove to be a disastrous one for the Tories in the next general election-is that...
Drunken Bandleader. It was a momentous decision. "Practically all the comedy shows owe their structure to Benny's conceptions," admitted Comedian Fred Allen. "The Benny show was like a One Man's Family in slapstick. He was the first comedian in radio to realize that you could get big laughs by ridiculing yourself instead of your stooges...