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...become independent this year, and Swaziland and South Arabia will follow soon afterward. Britain's Lord Caradon recently reported to the United Nations General Assembly that 50 colonial territories still remained to be freed around the world-31 in the British Empire alone. Since, in general, the weakest and least viable colonies are the last to be turned loose, the prospect is staggering. All of them, of course, soon apply for membership in the United Nations, where their equal voting power with such big nations as the U.S. and Russia has caused a whole new set of problems. This...
...remain, too, are those who privately express doubt that the organization will ever be able to justify its existence by doing more than what one calls "diddley work"--stuffing envelopes, writing letters, lending the Harvard name to worthy causes. (And worthy causes, members point out, are at their weakest position in several years as ways of attracting either commitment or attention.) Only about one-third as many people filled out Civil Rights Coordinating Committee interest cards at registration this year as did last year. A large part of the explanation no doubt lies in what one member calls "the Vietnam...
Charity throws the stalest book in the house at the house, the story of a doxy with a heart of gold, a taxi dancer who always falls for men who are either too sly or too shy to do her any good. In his weakest script to date, Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) seems to have heard rather than written the gags, and the dialogue is stippled with vulgarities, presumably aimed at the expense account trade...
These figures suggest that Romney has the solid support of a large part of the Michigan electorate--but not quite a majority. The voters who gave him his big 1964 margin were those with the weakest and most changeable preferences, and they were motivated in large part by transient factors--most notably their reaction to the assassination of President Kennedy. If this critical portion of the Romney majority is so soft, then it is just possible that he can be beaten when he runs for reelection (to a newly-lengthened four-year term) next year...
Rockefeller is the weakest link in the well-oiled New York Republican chain. He has tried to attach himself to the rising Lindsay star, much to the disgust of many of Lindsay's backers. (His chief effort--a Newsweek article signed by Rockefeller sycophant Emmett Hughes--tried to give the Governor credit for Lindsay's decision to run.) All of Rockefeller's labors are only casting a very dark shadow over whatever distant light may be shed by the Lindsay star: for the one fact that can explain the byzantine machinations of New York politics in the past year...