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...G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed vigorous service in those years, certainly today it demands even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler's only previous political post has been her position since 1963 as the only woman...
...tradition of the amateur has other far-reaching effects on Britain's ability to compete in the world today, suggests the Royal Institute of International Affairs' Andrew Shon-field. "Upper-class manners-and it is these manners which set the tone for the whole community in Britain-are unsympathetic to the crudity and explicitness of performance." The result affects everything from the quality of technical education to precise manufacturing standards, and helps explain why the atavistic apprentice system persists, with its "myth of the craftsman and his incommunicable skills." Arthur Koestler agrees that "psychological factors and cultural attitudes...
...that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...graduate is better prepared to be a citizen for all reasons than a nongraduate," he says. Turning the statistical tables on his anti-college-deferment critics, he says: "Look at the people who are serving. Who are they? They're most likely to be the middle-class and upper-class person. Those denied a chance to go to school are not included: some 2,500,000 are rejected because they cannot pass the mental test. That's unfair to the college student...
Died. Delmar Leighton, 69, Harvard's "dean of deans," who at his retirement in 1963 had devoted 41 years to counseling undergraduates, housing freshmen together for mutual aid, putting bright young professors in upper-class houses for intellectual stimulation, and opening a social and study center for commuter students; of a ruptured aneurysm of the heart; in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada...