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Died. Clement Davies, 78, who presided over the postwar decline of Britain's Liberal Party as its leader from 1945 to 1956, saw the number of Liberal seats in Commons shrink from 12 to six as he steered a middle course between Tory and Labor that made the Liberals mostly a party of protest; of a stroke; in London. Fortnight ago, Davies was cheered when the Liberals upset a Tory M.P. in a by-election and raised their representation to seven (out of 630) in Commons-but his death again reduces the number...
...this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans ... In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome...
...know that they have barely scratched the surface of the continent's mysteries. Meteorologists are trying to explain why the Antarctic does not start to warm up, as the Arctic does, before the sun rises in spring, would like to know whether the Antarctic ice will increase or shrink if the earth's climate gets warmer. Other areas to be explored are multitude-the ice sheet, weather, temperatures, winds, communications, geology...
...also rises. Too much maligned as the lowest form of humor, it can soar for a brief moment. And in good hands, words can be made to jump, molt, wiggle, shrink, flash, collide, fight, strut, and turn themselves inside out or upside down. They do in this volume of 57 light poems and five airy essays by Felicia Lamport. She briskly suggests that By Love Possessed might well have been written "by Henry James, gulled, cozened." She wonders if spacemen are headed for the "lunar bin." She worries about that poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing...
...they're standing in line. Lurid advertising has activated Boston's libido again, but I predict that the crowds will shrink drastically as soon as people find out from their friends that Kazan has given us the Ladies Home Journal instead of Nugget...