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...tell his allies of new and faster military pullbacks - moves that would ring down the curtain on Britain as a major armed power of the world. Unless the plans are modified in last-minute Cabinet debate before he submits the new budget to Parliament this week, all but token numbers of Britain's military, the builder of its empire and binder of its commonwealth, will pull back into the confines of Europe within 36 months...
...players the only ones building up resentments. Gasoline attendants find themselves wasting up to ten minutes per customer explaining the rules of each new game. Adding to the attendants' frustration, many drivers have taken to driving into station after station for a token gallon of gas while picking up more game chances. "America's service stations stand in danger of becoming one enormous coast-to-coast casino," warns E. D. Brockett, chairman of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the few major oil companies to abstain from the games. "Costs will rise and service will suffer," says Brockett...
...kind of "serious and sustained effort...to reach a negotiated settlement" that the Ad Hoc Committee's petition demands. Indeed, in context it appears that the scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby bringing the war to a speedier end, but rather as a token concession to mollify the anti-war movement here at home: "Nothing would do more to strengthen American support for our basic position," they write, than modest de-escalation...
...mighty resilient. He first took office in 1944 and, in his inauguration speech in 1964, intimated that he hoped to bow out as President after his fifth term. But Tubman has become fond of inaugurations. Last May he again ran for reelection, this time without even the usual token opponent. As he begins his 25th year this week, Tubman has some claim to being called an elder statesman. Among the notables due in Monrovia for his New Year's Day inauguration to a sixth term was U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...very least provide admissions officers with a national common denominator in helping judge the thousands of applications they get every year. A high scorer from a small, little-known school is thus given greater consideration than he might have received from his class record alone. By the same token, the underachiever -the bright youth with poor high school grades-is often spotlighted by the tests, given a second chance to prove himself...