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...economic abstraction, designed mainly to serve the needs of the multinationals. As it does to millions of ordinary Italians and Frenchmen, the Common Market so far means little more to millions of ordinary Britons than higher food prices and the mammoth trucks known as "Continental juggernauts" that shatter the peace of quiet country towns-a rude sample, they worry, of other horrors to come...
...Nixon's strategy should be evident by now Nixon does not want peace he wants his peace, peace with honor. At the moment peace with honor seems to involve a recognition by Hanor of the permanent division of Vietnam into North and South Nixon has shown himself willing to shatter carefully constructed hopes for peace if at any moment he thinks he can achieve such a peace with honor by force of bombs. Now that peace is once more "at hand," massive public opposition to Nixon's war and his illegitimate war arms is our only guarantee that...
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: On November 17 at the executive dinner for Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, drank 14 Hoosier specials en route to a record-shattering performance for alcohol consumption. Dake, by his own admission, had little intention of making a bid to shatter the World Hoosier special record, but "I just got to that fifth round, and I couldn't stop. I got to singing the Notro Dame fight song and right in the middle of maitre Jacques I got up and started that famous Notre Dame marching step on top of the tables. I marched from patron...
...contact with Muperson, her slightly complacent progressive formulas shatter. How does one inspire a Muperson - and still get all those troublesome blocks picked up? Mrs. Ashton-Warner's dilemma is every bit as old as the first teacher. What is new is her evident confusion, her unfortunate paralysis...
...Pius' critics have conceded that he partially made up for his public silence by quietly using Vatican agencies and his personal intervention to save thousands of Jews from extermination. Now a new voice has been added to the chorus of the Pope's inquisitors that seeks to shatter even that notion...