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...lest two of the Administration's Senate upsets lose much of their meaning because they were facilitated by third-party movements which split the Democrats' traditional areas of support...
...village, reveals their location to the Portuguese military, then watches with smug satisfaction as self-preservation grows into open rebellion. The Portuguese are thrown out, Dolores' army is persuaded to lay down its arms in favor of a white-colonist government, and Walker is off to more devilry. Lest anyone miss the point, Walker tells Dolores: "I don't suppose you've ever heard of the place where I'm going. It's called Indochina...
...possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
...Naturally we were very pleased that TIME chose to illustrate an item on California's population problems [July 27] with one of the "PotShots" postcards created, copyrighted and published by this company, even if you didn't give us any credit for it. Lest it be thought, however, that in saying, "It's really quite a simple choice: life, death or Los Angeles," we have despaired of California altogether, let me point out that there is another card in the same series that says, "There may be no heaven anywhere, but somewhere there is a San Francisco...
...immediate effect on Wall Street. Since Aug. 13, the Dow-Jones industrial average has climbed 59 points before leveling off as a result of profit taking; the average closed last week at 766, v. a May low of 631. Some mutual funds and other institutional buyers were purchasing aggressively lest they miss the start of a new bull market...