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...last month, Gait-skell's foes had rammed through a resolution endorsing unilateral nuclear disarmament for Britain. Defiantly, Gaitskell, a determined supporter of NATO, refused to accept the vote as official Labor policy or as binding on him, argued that only the party's elected representatives in Par- liament could finally speak for the Labor Party. He insisted that the "Parliamentary Party," which is British shorthand for all Labor Members of Parliament, still backed him and his policy of maintaining the nuclear deterrent in alliance with the U.S. and NATO...
...rights. Except perhaps for their teachers, the students were most affected and most concerned about the inferior schools they and their younger brothers and sisters attended. As college students they knew that neither their college preparatory work not the courses of learning now open to them were on a par with those available in the North or even in the white South. They had sacrificed the immediate gratifications of job and family for education and were aware that on paper their degrees should entitle them to positions of responsibility and respect in the community. Yet in the South their expectation...
...nations like the U.S. (where there are only 400 trained midwives) and Canada (where there are none), the midwife is often regarded as a sort of medieval social curiosity, on a par with the fortuneteller. In U.S. obstetrical argot, a clumsy delivery is a "midwife's job." This loss of stature was partly deserved. A generation ago, for example, all Moroccan births were handled by the tribal midwife (habla), whose actions were inspired more by superstition than by science. If the newborn Moroccan infant cried too loudly, the habla sliced the child's thorax...
Left halfback Bill King is in one piece, but center half Peter Savage and right half Bill Driver are a bit below par...
...embarrassment that it caused the U.S., the Moscow sideshow was not unexpected. Last July, when Martin and Mitchell did not come back from a sum mer vacation, NSA men broke into Mitchell's home in Laurel, Md. They found the place a shambles, and they were par ticularly intrigued by a set of safe-deposit keys. Maryland State Police got a court order to open Mitchell's safe-deposit box in the State Bank of Laurel, and there, indeed, was the typewritten defection statement...