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...parties' faithful doorbell ringers trudged into the last few days of electioneering, public opinion polls showed the Tories still ahead, but the gap was narrowing fast. Conservatives who last month hopefully predicted a 100-seat majority in the new House of Commons now talked grimly of squeaking into power with a slimmer, 20-to-50 majority...
...began with a Methodist publisher's casual question over a dinner table: "What, in your judgment, is the most urgent task in religious publishing today?" Answered scholarly Dr. George Buttrick of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church: "A new commentary on the Bible which would bridge the gap between the exegetes [interpreters] and rank & file teachers and preachers...
...side, Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZes) are up to 535 miles deep; on the Canadian side (CADIZes) they are narrower and there is a gap in the prairie belt where the system is not yet in operation. Areas on both sides of the border are rigidly policed. Airmen planning to fly in them must file a flight plan; failure to do so is punishable by a $10,000 fine and a year's imprisonment. Radar stations plot the flight to make sure an expected plane is no more than five minutes off schedule or 20 miles off course...
Slowly, then faster & faster as the Dodgers faltered, the Giants closed the gap, winning 37 of their last 44 games, tied the Dodgers at season's end and forced a playoff. During that frantic final week, Durocher repeated persistently: "Don't interview me. I'm not doing a thing. It's my players who are doing the work. Talk with all of them; they're a great bunch. It's a privilege to manage them." While Durocher kept mum, the Giants won the first playoff game, lost the second, and trailed...
This year's economic crisis is the worst since the war. Imports are already 47.5% ahead of 1950 and rearmament is cutting down exports. The third quarter dollar gap amounts to $638,000,000 and there are no new loans or Marshall money to relieve this. Beer doesn't think that the doom of economic catastrophe is inevitable. Rather, he figures on another American loan...