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...Thirteen Problems...
Contrary to their traditional contempt for European politics, many Americans may look somewhat wistfully at Thursday's election in England; British voters were given not a quavering echo of an overly idyllic past but a responsible alternative to the incumbent government. Since an extension of the thirteen year Tory rule might well have destroyed the Labor party, Labor's apparent victory over the Conservatives is welcome, if only because it preserves a strong two party government in England...
Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, Harold Wilson must maneuver with a delicate touch in the months ahead until he feels confident enough to ask the electorate for a larger majority. After thirteen years of Tory rule, it was certainly time for a change. But if British voters have chosen to replace the Conservative's perfunctory performance with Labor's potential, they have unfortunately failed to give the Laborites a sufficient mandate to realize their promise...
...Vermont was the first State admitted to the Union after the original thirteen . . . Vermont drafted the first State consitution to forbid slavery...
...Thirteen other lectures will be given in the course of the year, on such topics as traditional societies, new elites, regional integration, and colonialism...