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...years Britain has been growing lopsided. As lingering depression shuttered the mills and shipyards of Scotland and the industrial north, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families drifted into southeast England. New industries sprang up, and a blotchy urban sprawl transformed the home counties surrounding London into Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telephone poles and tin." Greater London is being choked by its population explosion; its birth rate is six times that of the rest of the country. Traffic is so congested in the city that when a magazine staged a race between...
When public schools ban the Bible to duck religious controversy, they recklessly cut off a sturdy taproot of secular culture. To measure the cost, English Teacher Thayer S. Warshaw of crack Newton (Mass.) High School devised a 112-question quiz on simple Biblical allusions, sprang it on five classes of bright, college-bound juniors and seniors. In The English Journal, he reports the result: a sobering case of "cultural deprivation...
...Clear-eyed again, Clay sprang from his corner in the sixth round. Rat-a-tat-tat, a flurry of eight punches made Liston double up. "Get mad, baby," Clay's handlers chanted. "Go after him." Fighting flatfooted, Cassius ripped off a roundhouse right that just missed. Jab, jab, jab, jab, the cut under Liston's eye began to ooze blood again. Two left hooks snapped Sonny's head back. Cassius sank back onto his stool and leaned through the ropes. "I'm gonna upset the world," he told a TV announcer...
When a blood clot formed behind the retina of his left eye in 1958, Bob Hope, then 55, hardly cut back his activities at all. Doctors feared a partial loss of sight. But Hope sprang eternal, and the danger seemed to pass-until a month ago. Now Bob has checked into San Francisco's Children's Hospital. Though the actual treatment-powerful light beams precisely focused on the eye to dissolve the clot-is only minutes long, Hope will be sidelined for about two weeks. That means he can't do his Dec. 13 TV show...
...Reject It." As Morton sat down, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore sprang to his feet, praised him for his speech, then seconded it in powerful words: "I accept no blame for what this demented man did. I feel no sense of personal guilt. He is the one who had become a fanatic. Why should all America be blamed for the actions of one fanatic? True, our society has many problems and imperfections, much stress and distress, hate, fear and disappointment; but it is an injustice to our millions of people of good will, even the teeming thousands of hospitable, cheering people...