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...saving Green Stamps for an airplane for their noble, semiliterate leader [Nov. 12]. That is sickening, particularly to us in Taos, because we collect trading stamps too-for Christmas toys for children of poverty-stricken families. Our stamps are collected by people of three groups (Spanish-American, Indian, Anglo) for children of three groups in an area where these people have lived together cooperatively for years...
Transistorized Bases. The purchase of Diego Garcia came after a two-year survey by an Anglo-American mission that has been combing the Indian Ocean for suitable communications, staging and refueling sites. Britain's biggest bases east of Suez are in jeopardy-Aden, with its 14,000 men, is expected to become unusable in two years due to Arab pressure; Singapore-Malaysia, with 51,000 men and the best strategic location in Southeast Asia, is likely to be evacuated by 1970 at the latest, depending partly on how great a threat Indonesia continues to pose in its confrontation with...
John Lindsay's parents were descended from pure-blooded WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)-though, as Lindsay is fond of pointing out, "If you are really hip, the correct term is ASP; all Anglo-Saxons are white, so why be redundant?" His father, George Nelson Lindsay, was the son of a Scotch-Irish brickmaker from the Isle of Wight who went broke in 1884 and emigrated to New York. John Lindsay'? mother, Eleanor Vliet Lindsay, was the daughter of a Dutch-descended New Jersey carpentry contractor whose ancestors dated back to colonial times...
...many registered Democrats as Republicans. Thus, the rare Republican candidate who wins the mayoralty (the last was Fiorello La Guardia in 1941) must straddle a multitude of attitudes. He must seem liberal enough to win over people who normally vote Democratic, correct enough to hold the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) minority, yet independent enough to appeal to reform Democrats...
...French don't care what they do, actually," remarked Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate...