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...John Birch Society, the armed Minutemen, or groups dedicated to the promotion of anti-Semitism." Humphrey was just warming up. He called Wallace a demagogue and compared him to Hitler. "He has sought to inflame fear, frustration and prejudice," he said. "He pretends to be the friend of the workingman, but he is the creature of the most reactionary underground forces in American life...
...another. It works less well once the party leaders don their bowler hats, pick up their dispatch cases and move into Whitehall. Then the unions naturally enough expect their reward. But the responsibilities of ruling Britain seldom enable a socialist government to do all it would like for the workingman. The result is an inevitable clash, and it has seldom been more acrimonious than it is today...
Steven J. Kelman '70, president of the Harvard Young People's Socialist League, plans to distribute anti-Wallace leaflets at the Common. About 50 Harvard students are expected to help distribute the leaflets, which attack Wallace's claim to be a friend of the workingman. Kelman said yesterday that the group will carry anti-Wallace signs but will not shout or attempt to disrupt the rally...
...other hand, a narrow victory might not be enough to re-establish his authority. And anti-De Gaulle feelings, now largely the province of the liberal, the youthful, and the workingman, could spread in startling ways. The angry days of May have probably loosed all the diverse special interests and political frustrations bottled up for a decade. Unions, now that they have learned their strength, are likely to go on wresting both managerial prerogatives and higher pay from the patronat?the owners?whose power has remained fairly unchallenged under Gaullism. But there is also likely to be a backlash from...
...need is a stable rice price, which Suharto has so far been unable to produce. Just in the past five months, a liter of rice has more than doubled in price (to 23?), and prices change from day to day-mostly upward. On the average, rice now costs the workingman 40% of his total income. It was rice, more than anything else, that was on the new President's mind when he admitted in his inaugural address: "The results achieved do not yet meet the wishes of the people at large...