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...eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became devoid of serious ideas. "There was an ideological vacuum in the Labor Party," says Peter Shipley, a conservative expert on British revolutionaries. "Labor had come to a full stop. The extreme left claimed to have the answers and started to fill the vacuum." Says Alfred Sherman, director of Britain's conservative Center for Policy Studies: "The young have gone left because in Britain there is nothing...
...barber shop, a newspaper. Marvin Neff, 74, and his wife Lucy, 70, treasure some old sepia postcards that prove Claypool even had a handsome elevated bandstand, center block on Main Street, where brass-band concerts were given every Saturday night. Another card shows an attractive little commercial hotel. "The Shipley Hotel was right there," Neff says, pointing at a building now occupied by the Chamness Tucker Funeral Home...
...Democrats have also been undermined by success in a more insidious way. Their decades of running Congress, most states and the White House have made them "the party of the Government," in the words of Texas Democratic Pollster George Shipley. So long as Government was presiding over a noninflationary boom that brought benefits to nearly everyone, that identification helped. But in an era of slow growth, energy shortages, persistent inflation, high taxes, unemployment and recurrent recession, the Democrats have been angrily attacked by members of the old coalition whose competing claims can no longer be reconciled. Says Convention Keynoter Morris...
Declared a pro-Carter Democratic chairman in a Southeastern state: "It's terrible. It's hurt our image and the party's image. People are beginning to wonder, 'Is the President any smarter than his brother is?' " Claimed George Shipley, a Democratic Party pollster in Texas: "To put it crudely, it looks like the Beverly Hillbillies in the White House...
...Shipley Munson '80, Club president, and David I. Levi '80, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, awarded Streep a small, gold-plated pot in recognition of her acting achievements. Streep most recently starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in "Kramer vs. Kramer...