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...Plastic politician," said London's Observer; "Organization man," said the News Chronicle; "Very spirit of togetherness," sneered the London Daily Mirror; "Mechanical smile," said the Daily Herald; "Superb political gamesmanship," said the Manchester Guardian. In one of the odd situations of modern diplomacy, Nixon was personally on trial and double-dared to make a misstep...
...evident by these excerpts, Etc. did not make a feminist attempt to rival any Harvard publications, although as a humor magazine it could be classified with the Lampoon. Nor did it set itself up to "represent Radcliffe" or to "mirror student opinion." In short, it lacked the self-consciousness found in other publications of the College and thus unlike its predecessors did not immediately evoke ridicule...
...verachte die Deutschen" ("I despise the Germans"), reads the caption beneath the photo of London Daily Mirror Columnist William Neil Connor on the cover of last week's Der Spiegel (circ. 350,000), West Germany's brisk, brash newsmagazine. Inside, in a ten-column question-and-answer interview headlined...
STICK THE GERMANS IN THE REFRIGERATOR! Columnist Connor-"Cassandra" to the Mirror's 4,658,793 readers-expanded his theme...
Such bile leaks freely from the pen of Cassandra, whose reigning creative climate is the icy winter of discontent. In 20 splenetic years on the Mirror he has hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they...