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...highly dangerous consequences" if Rhodesia seceded. Smith was evidently prepared to call his bluff. He was banking heavily on the probability that although some voices in Britain were calling for British troops, a vast segment of British public opinion would protest the use of tommies to put down an Anglo-Saxon insurrection (Britain has not gone in for that sort of thing since 1776). Instead, what seemed to lie ahead was economic reprisals: the freezing of Rhodesia's sterling deposits, ejection from the Commonwealth and its tariff protection, trade boycotts or embargoes. All of which did not seem...
...immobility, unaspiring hopelessness. One Government study by psychiatrists found that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American men cluster around TV sets that blare from the grim, grimy tar-paper shacks. "They're not much interested in what's on the screen," says John D. Rockefeller IV, a 28-year-old poverty worker in West Virginia, "but it gives them something to watch...
...When he was a teen-ager in Roanoke, Va., Fowler got the nickname from a Greek immigrant restaurant owner who had trouble with any Anglo-Saxon name except that one. The handle stuck...
...current English tour, a benefit performance for the Peace Foundation of cantankerous Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 93, campaigning for nuclear disarmament and U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. In glee, the foundation announced its catch. In wrath, the Foreign Office insisted that the benefit was off because "in pursuit of better Anglo-Soviet cultural relations the government cannot allow Soviet artists to be involved in internal politics in this country." In embarrassment, the Bolshoi protested that that was the last thing it wanted. And in righteous indignation, the Peace Foundation made clear that it had got what it really wanted: attention...
...Francisco, where a 1963 merger of San Francisco's Crocker-Anglo National Bank and Los Angeles' Citizens National Bank into the CrockerCitizens National Bank is under attack in Federal court, the Justice Department proposed a more unusual remedy. If the merger is ruled illegal, it suggested, the Transamerica Corp.−a $400 million holding company that initiated the merger and now owns 11% of Crocker-Citizens stock−should be ordered to establish a new statewide banking system that could compete with Crocker-Citizens, then to sell its interest in the new system to an independent third party...