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Although reactions varied widely, most Eliot men shared the feelings of one student who said. "Machines or no machines, smokes or no smokes, live or die--at this point I couldn't care less." Most attributed the wide-spread apathy to the paucity of cigarette smokers and the obscurity of the machine, which was located in a cloak room...
...consider propaganda tolerable provided it's your brand, "Seven Days in May" is enjoyable. When the story begins, Frederic March, as President of the United States, has signed a disarmament treaty with the Russians. Despite unemployment from disbanded defense industries and the wide-spread unpopularity of the treaty, President March sticks grimly to his decision. "Eventually we would have blown each other up," he philosophizes...
...conversations in Palm Springs-or at least the communiques-are likely to gloss over the uglier problems: Guantanamo, Panama, and above all wide-spread Latin American doubts about the new administration's sensitivity to the area's needs...
...stunned, ashamed, and depressed.... This community bears a justifiable guilt, and we who stood around and listened to the trash--fearing a reprisal or a 'tag' if we spoke out--perhaps are the most guilty." It remains to be seen whether his feeling of anguish and shame is wide-spread, and strong enough to have a permanent effect on the public stance of Southern moderates...
Ironically, for all their emphasis on foreign affairs, the Tories may be saved by the recent economic upsurge, which could be the palliative necessary to prevent a wide-spread voter revolt. But statistics are hardly encouraging. A recent Daily Telegraph Gallup poll reported that Labor led the Conservatives by 9 1/2 percentage points. And the disastrous Tory record in by-elections was continued last week when they absorbed a surprisingly large defeat at Luton. As an industrial town with full employment and considerable prosperity, Luton typifies more than a hundred constituencies which the Tories win to retain power...