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...this age of nuclear stalemate, history's decisive moments seldom result any longer from the clash of arms and armies. They develop instead from painstaking negotiations and wordy debates, subject to all the vagaries and nuances of global and frequently local politics. So it is this week as two momentous shifts in the political shape of the world approach the point of decision. In London, ten years after Britain first applied to join the European Economic Community, the House of Commons votes on whether Britain should join the six-nation Common Market. At the United Nations, the General Assembly...
...usual, the plot begins to thicken no later than the top of page 2. Bertie Wooster has just escaped from the clutching hands of Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn's daughter, and is reflecting on the joys of freedom. "I've seldom had a sharper attack of euphoria," he tells Jeeves over the eggs and bacon. "I feel full to the brim of Vitamin B. Mind you, I don't know how long it will last. Too often it is when one feels fizziest that the storm clouds begin doing their stuff...
...late August, newspaper seizures for the year totaled 291. Since then, up to the time the polls closed last week, there were nearly 200 more, and virtually all victims were anti-Thieu papers. The wonder is that the regime bothers. Because of government corruption and inefficiency, the seizures seldom suppress a paper entirely, and because the Vietnamese press has a longstanding reputation for venality, relatively few people pay much attention to its attacks on Thieu in the first place...
...matter what his race, creed or financial status, the American male under 5 ft. 8 in.-the height of the average American man-is a victim of discrimination. That is the conclusion of a Cleveland sociologist who has begun a personal crusade against a seldom mentioned form of prejudice that, like racism and sexism, is well established in U.S. society: heightism...
...mass scale as those in the bloody spring of 1970. In addition, eruptions did taper off at the highly visible elite colleges and universities that often set the pace. Instead, last year's turmoil became "diffused," moving to the "invisible" campuses that newsmen rarely visit and educational leaders seldom discuss: public four-year colleges, Roman Catholic colleges and two-year private colleges. "Unrest," says Bayer, "has permeated into the Podunks...