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Nothing, in Soviet doctrine, is much more reactionary than Christmas, combining as it does "bourgeois" religion with capitalist commercialism. But the New Year is something else again. For years, the Communists have emphasized this ideologically safer holiday while downgrading or disguising Christmas (which in the Russian calendar falls on Jan. 7). With beaming approval from the Krernlin, Moscow last week was feverishly preparing for the biggest, brassiest and most bountiful New Year's blowout in Communist history...
...until there is European unity; in the meantime, De Gaulle expects the rest of Europe to rely on France. The U.S. says the same, and in the meantime expects Europe to rely on the U.S. Only Gaullist delusions of grandeur could suggest that reliance on the U.S. is not safer than reliance on France. But the common fault is that both Washington and Paris slight the ultimate goal of European unity while accusing each other of blocking...
...octogenarian and the guests heard a eulogy of affection tempered with humor: "If there's a banner to be waved, he'll wave it. If he doesn't have an opinion, he'll get one while you are waiting. When everyone knows it is safer to let the dust settle first, often as not he is helping to create the dust. He has the uncanny knack 99% of the time of being found, when the dust does settle, on the side of the saints. The 1% represents, of course, his vote for Goldwater...
...safer to stay with something you know something about" was clearly said by the grandson of the man who said, "People can have the Model T in any color, so long as it's black." Only Henry Ford I meant it, while that daredevil Henry Ford II, 44, threw caution aside and took a $1,600 flyer in a Broadway musical, Sugar City, due in March. The auto heir has backed "two or three" other shows, none of which earned him a dime. But, as Granddad used to say, history is more or less bunk...
...Tory comeback, are predicting a small Labour majority in the next Parliament. Stock market prices are down in anticipation of a Labour victory, and Ladbrooks's "bookmakers to the Establishment," puts the odds at 1-3 for Labour and 9-4 for the Conservatives. Labour looks like the safer...