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...early phases of the cycle, when the new forces which created the new alignment are most dynamic and the public response most clear-cut, the electoral majorities of the dominant party may be overwhelming. Although long voting habits may keep many who share the new majority viewpoint within the fold of the opposition party, in the beginning that party is commonly the haven for those who reject the new consensus. The leaders of this group secure control of the party machinery and position it vigorously against the views widely accepted by the majority of citizens, thus consigning...
After wearing a Republican label for 40 years while thinking and acting more like a Democratic organization, North Dakota's Nonpartisan League last week officially took itself into the Democratic fold. Most active members of the N.P.L., closely aligned with the left-of-center National Farmers Union, will be more comfortable as Democrats. But the shift will cause real trouble for some of the league's leading lights who were elected to the office when the N.P.L. controlled North Dakota's G.O.P. organization. Most trou bled : North Dakota's cantankerous, caterwauling U.S. Senator William Langer...
...road from Teheran to Baghdad and Damascus. Around the solitary gasoline station and several inns, truck-driver counterparts of Scheherezade's cameleers slept in the open, and townspeople flung wide their doors. About i a.m. a gaunt wolf swept down from the mountains like an Assyrian on the fold and attacked sleeping Sahneh. The beast loped lightly over the low mud walls and slashed at sleeping villagers around the scattered huts on the out skirts. The wolf went for the head, as is the way of wolves, and in two hours found 13 victims...
...sell the position, especially when compared with the power of Beyond Personality, or Mere Christianity. His life becomes, as he says, a kind of chess match with deity, which of course loses, checkmated into Christianity, dragged by the internal logic of all he as ever done, into the fold. Whether it is freedom or necessity does not matter, but that it makes his position entirely individual becomes clear. The reader emerges with the feeling that "for that kind of man, conversion was a necessity, but his story has no bearing on my spiritual position; it is idiosyncratic...
...early 1900s lung cancer was a rare disease, but equally prevalent among men and women, Dr. Wynder told a Brooklyn meeting of the American Chemical Society. By 1954 the overall lung cancer death rate had increased twenty-fold among men, only fourfold among women (21,000 and 4,000 deaths respectively). Dr. Wynder and two colleagues compared the smoking histories of women with lung cancer,(105 cases) with those of women (the same ages) without cancer. Of the cancer victims, 61% were smokers as compared with only 29% among the cancer-free. Among the former, ten times as many...