Word: topic
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Three more aging Labor M.P.s are also ailing, including critically ill Frank Hayman, 70, who was elected from a constituency in Cornwall last fall by the distinctly thin margin of only 2,926 votes. The sick list is a constant topic for "the ghoul school" of Tory strategists, who point out that 80 of Wilson's M.P.s are over 60, and add that since he is bound to wind up a minority Prime Minister by death or accident anyway, he might as well resign now. Laborites sometimes sound as though they were telling sick jokes in Whitehall. When they...
Historians seldom make much news in the nation's capital, but Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has recently been vying with Viet Nam as Topic B (Topic A, of course, is Lyndon). The more some people think about it, the more annoyed they seem to get with Schlesinger's reminiscences of the Kennedy Administration, especially with his remarks that the Kennedys, Bobby as well as Jack, didn't really want Lyndon as Vice President, and his disclosure that Jack thought Dean Rusk was a nothing and was going to dump...
...week marked by the spectacular results of man's first photo reconnaissance of Mars, the ambitions of the scientists and engineers at the San Francisco meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics seemed modest indeed. Topic "A" was the civilization of near-space-the techniques by which astronauts may live and work in the neighboring sky this side of the moon...
Panel members eagerly heeded the admonition of Chairman Gardner that they were there "not to be lectured at but to be heard." The topic that stirred the conference's loudest and sharpest clash was the notion that federal grants may be followed by federal testing to assess educational results. Warned Commissioner Keppel: "The nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress will want to know-and have every right to know-whether that investment is paying off." John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative...
Discussing Commonwealth relations with 300 students at the University of Edinburgh, Philip announced that he was going to say nothing about Rhodesia, since it is a touchy topic nowadays. Rhodesia's white Prime Minister, Ian Smith, has been threatening to break the remaining ties with Britain and declare independence if necessary to preserve its racist policies, while black Africa's Commonwealth leaders have been clamoring for Britain to force Smith to hold biracial elections for a new constitution within the next three months. Philip, however, did not say nothing. "I recognize," he remarked, "the impressions of many Africans...