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...Vote Rhodesian Front for a white Christmas!" shouted a heckler at a Salisbury rally as the campaign for Southern Rhodesia's 65-seat Parliament wound up last week. The man he interrupted-Sir Roy Welensky, white supremacist Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland-has never settled for anything less, but this time "Royboy" was up against an opponent who outbleached him. The result was a disastrous defeat for Welensky and his United Federal Party...
...later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches are the miniatures done over the centuries by a host of artisans, many of whose names are now forgotten...
Queen with a reputation for zoom in sports cars back home, was having his woes with the lawnmower-engined buzz bombs. In a regimental race, his kart had no go, and though he leaned professionally into the turns, he wound up, according to one polite observer, "among the last...
...Guard. All this was like rubbing salt in a wound, and the press responded by raising a mighty ruckus. Mark Watson, military reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was reminded of "the policy and performance of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Paul Goebbels." Wrote Joe Alsop in a column careless of any strain it might put on his friendship with the President: "The caves of the policymakers still too strongly resemble mushroom cellars. The danger is airlessness, in other words, and this airlessness can be too easily fatal, unless the caves are regularly ventilated by the winds of national...
...feel, actually, only one serious disappointment about the magazine: although Hoffmann and Iriye hint at the dimensions of what Monnet-like merging of technocrats may involve for groups wound up in their nation's sovereignty, nobody goes into detail. The Review and the British Tories are alike in this failing: perhaps mine is a hopelessly unreasonable request. But despite this Metaphysical quibble, it should be clear by now that The Harvard Review is the best thing to happen around here in a long time...