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...Many a community in Britain where the national papers are read also has its own "provincial" daily, e.g., the Yorkshire Evening Post, Liverpool Echo, etc. They are not only much smaller than the national popular dailies but usually much quieter and less sensational as well...
...Commission were widely applauded and nearly 75% of the recommendations have since been adopted. The 1955 reports are far more basic and more controversial. Many of the recommendations have already been met with sharp criticism from New Deal Democrats and other advocates of big government and the welfare state. Quieter, but perhaps more important, is the resistance from entrenched bureaucracy, military and civilian, and from powerful business groups that want special Government services. Not all opponents are New Dealish; many pay obeisance to the doctrines of free enterprise. Much of Government expansion, including some Government competition with business, has resulted...
...that he would retire unless he felt a lot better soon. That prospect was more than agreeable to Mme. St. Laurent, who worried about her lawyer-husband's late entry into politics (at 59) and has never made any secret of her willingness to quit Ottawa for a quieter life at the family home in Quebec City...
Much of the forces' work is of quieter nature. Simply patrolling the Harvard area--from the business school parking lot, to the law and graduate schools (upper right, lower left and right)--for 24 hours each day takes much of the manpower. The police do not cover Radcliffe, patrolled by separate night watchmen, except for occasional incidents, such as that last Yale weekend, when students conducted an impromptu parade to the Annex...
...that the stigma is disappearing, Claverly's many advantages become evident," Zeph Stewart, a Claverly Hall tutor said "It is a quieter, pleasanter, more spacious place than any of the Houses," he argued. Stewart has been a Claverly resident for two years, this year at his own request...