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...Jersey's Governor Robert Baumle Meyner knows that a presidential prospect can look like Cinderella, but he must also have a sure touch with the fairy godmother's political wand. Bob Meyner was Cinderellegant last November; he swept to a second term at Trenton with the highest vote total (1,000,000) ever registered by a New Jersey Democrat (TIME, Nov. 18). And last week his political wand struck sparks. Winner in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator: handpicked, hand-pushed Meyner Candidate Harrison A. Williams...
...Wilson's appealing formula-self-determination for everybody-proved the magic wand that it once appeared. The cry of self-determination offers no solution to the problem of West Irian, where Indonesia and The Netherlands are disputing the mastery of savage peoples who have no ties with either the Javanese or the Dutch, yet are incapable of developing and ruling a nation in the modern world. It is scarcely any more helpful in Cyprus, where straightforward recourse to a plebiscite might well bring Greece and Turkey into an armed conflict that would destroy NATO's Eastern wing...
...LOST WAND...
...treaty of peace. As a reporter for the Irish Times put it: "There was no rejoicing in Fethard-on-the-Sea yesterday, but there was a new air of hope in the village. Obviously, however, [the boycott] will not disappear as though by the wave of a magic wand...
...cure for Oscar Hammerstein II's script, which kept shifting uneasily between the sentimental and the sophisticated, and making each seem lamer than the other. The modern approach produced a down-to-earth skeptic of a Godmother (Edith Adams) with sequined eyelids and, for a magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth of song cues laid end to end. Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled...