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...past two years, Britain's Labor Party has sounded more like a waterfront quarrel than a loyal opposition. With the Conservatives' third straight electoral victory, deep doctrinal differences sundered Labor, scared off its potential majority, and let the government go virtually unchallenged. Last week Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell resoundingly quelled the civil war in Labor's ranks, scoring a personal triumph that was also reassuring to the U.S. and the West...
...Ethiopia was grave, aloof, sad-eyed, a figare out of the past. Some were old antagonists: Ethiopia and Somalia have been squabbling over borders for years. Some were mint-new friends: Nasser and Tunisia's Bourguiba met at Belgrade, having patched up their bitter, four-year-old quarrel. Even in their approach to the cold war, the delegates sharply differed: U.A.R.'s Nasser and U Nu ruthlessly repress their local Communists; Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah (fresh from a red-carpet visit to Russia) actively encourage them...
...were accustomed to naming friends for bench vacancies and getting near-automatic presidential approval. Some Senate veterans have still to hear the new message, and, more than any other factor, senatorial balkiness has held up the flow of nominations. In Texas, Senator Ralph Yarborough and Vice President Lyndon Johnson quarrel now over every available patronage plum; Justice hopes to resolve a potentially bitter fight by selecting Yarborough-approved candidates for two unfilled posts in Texas' southern and western districts, Johnson men for two available judgeships in the northern district. Another troublesome appointment is a new district judgeship in eastern...
...closing notice was an exasperated end to a protracted and angry quarrel, beginning last April, between the Met's stubborn manager Rudolf Bing and the equally stubborn negotiating committee representing the Met's 92-man orchestra. The subject was money. Last season the Met's musicians, all members of famed Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, were paid $170 a week per man for the 25-week season-a figure that has gone up only $11 in the past eight years. This is $10 less than New York Philharmonic musicians get for a far shorter...
Household Ghosts probes delicately the many ways in which people can hurt each other and themselves. Its confrontations are as jarringly dramatic as an overheard quarrel, and its set pieces, especially a party at a small-town schoolhouse, are fine mixtures of humor and sadness...