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Clearly Wilson is not about to abandon Britain's vital military interests in India, Malaysia, and East Africa. The Singapore base is the key to the defense of Malaysia against the hostile Indonesian government. Indian Ocean islands form a chain of British outposts from Australia to Africa...
...Cambridge segment for the Inner Belt is expected to be announced early next week by Francis W. Sargent, commissioner of the State Department of Public Works. A spokesman for the department said yesterday that he doubted the federal government would abandon the inner Belt. It has already approved all major segments for the Belt except the Cambridge portion, he said...
Yale was outplayed, and seemed to win the game by magic. The Crimson forwards swung away with the abandon of batting practice, and if you totalled the square feet of open cage Harvard shot at, you would have a very broad side of a barn...
...comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build up enough pressure to get a laugh, humorists have begun to abandon sex to take up the grave topic of death, as in The Loved One, proudly promoted as a picture "with something to offend everyone." Yet audiences have generally proved shockproof to spoofs on death and destruction; they do not laugh because they understand, and says Playwright (A Thousand Clowns) Herb...
...puts forward a program of reform that makes the ideas of Luther seem positively papalist by comparison. Among other proposals, DuBay suggests that bishops be elected for limited terms, that their statements must represent a consensus of the faith ful, and that the parochial school sys tem should be abandoned in favor of informal programs to teach Catholics the principles of Christian action. DuBay argues that the church should voluntarily abandon its tax exemptions and let individual congregations create their own liturgies and creeds...