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...English ruling class." In recent years, the feeling has been aggravated by a condition that Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer calls megaloxenophobia - the fear or envy of The Big Stranger, i.e., the world's dominant power. But there is strong evidence that anti-Americanism is now on the wane...
...Vice President, Johnson presides over the Senate-but he certainly does not run it. His influence over Senate affairs has been on the wane ever since the first Democratic conference under the New Frontier. At that meeting, new Majority Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that Vice President Johnson continue in his post as presiding officer of meetings of the Senate Democratic conference. A group of Democrats, including Tennessee's Albert Gore and Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, protested that it meant an invasion by the executive branch...
Woodbury shrugs off the attacks, and so do his superiors back home in Salt Lake City. "By Woodbury is a great leader." says Missions Director Henry Moyle. What animosity there is seems likely to wane. This week, as Woodbury rounds out his three-year tour of duty, a new president with a flair for church diplomacy is on his way to London: Marion Duff Hanks. 40. who has been working full time on Mormon business as one of the church's 38 "General Authorities." Hanks plans a somewhat softer sell...
...House system would mean the end of the fraternities. But, he added that he "greatly doubted that the faculty-corporation committee would recommend abolition of the fraternities." Apparently many members of the administration hope that, "without intervention by the university, the fraternity system may die out--or at least wane significantly." Such an attitude, coupled with what is almost a fear on the part of Brown officials to abolish the fraternities outright, does not promise much hope for the effective House system envisaged by the student report...
...turned the listener into a performer is a sometime jazz drummer named Irving Kratka, who ten years ago launched a small record company that prospered briefly in the early LP boom. When business started to wane. Kratka recalled Columbia's earlier, unsuccessful "Add-a-Part" series on 78-r.p.m. disks, decided that the added convenience of LPs might make the idea work. At first, Music Minus One recorded chiefly classical releases, began to rake in the profits when it added jazz. It omits every instrument in the orchestra but the harp, often makes a single piece of music available...