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...more than place an unreasonable burden on an already belabored people. The course of future British policy, in the long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate...
...True. At first, Mamie was a little confused about identifying Jim. (It was "forgetfulness," explained relatives, a trait which made it necessary several years later to send Mamie to the Elgin State Hospital for the insane, where she died in 1947.) But later she got quite positive about it. At the police station, Montgomery recalls, he was beaten up by the cops and the prosecutor told him, "if you were down in Georgia or Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong...
...only good things Gerasimov found during his visit to the U.S. were "the clever, honest and educated Americans we met at the conference." But these, alas, doubtless victimized by the lure of lingerie, were "all characterized by one trait: a bitter, ironical smile...
Your Show Time (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Stevenson's Sire de Male trait's Door...
...never acquired the ballplayer's habit of chewing tobacco (he likes pistachio nuts) nor the ballplayer's trait for pinching a penny. As a result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...