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...very encouraging. Graham has been a dedicated member of the city council, and a vocal advocate of rent control and the rights of the city's minority groups. In the state house, Graham should continue those efforts and serve Cambridge as a much more distinguished representative than her predecessor...
...even some Tories dismiss the coalition talk as partisan. "Old men's twaddle," snorted George Gale, the crusty columnist for the Daily Express. "What is being offered in all this talk of 'government of national unity' is yet another dose of escapism." Callaghan's predecessor, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, told TIME that he opposed such a plan in peacetime because a national government "almost invariably produces fudged decisions." Moreover, Wilson added, the inclusion of Tories in the government would jeopardize the tenuous working agreement between the Callaghan government and the unions and lead to widespread...
...endurance of that image is probably the result of Ford's unusual ascent to the White House. Fate having granted Ford a reprieve from the strenuous tests of a national campaign, the nation's expectations of the new President were formed primarily by the nature of his predecessor. After the disillusionment produced by the corruption and arrogance of Richard Nixon's administration, Genghis Khan would have been welcomed with open arms. If Ford seemd incapable of inspired vision and strong leadership, he also seemed in-capable of inspired villainy or ingenious deceit. It would be enough, it seemed...
...magnificent agent of foreign powers and an undisclosible suspence sequence in which Hitchcock totally outraged the sentimental expectations of 1930s film audiences, particularly in America. Showing with Sabotage is Murder, a rarely shown Hitchcock from 1930, which should be great if it is anything like Blackmail (1929), its predecessor and the first British talkie...
Grand Rapids remains predominantly Calvinistic, and white, with non-whites comprising 11% of the population. There is a distinct attitude of tolerance. The present mayor, Abe Drasin, is a Jew; his predecessor was a black. Says Drasin, as he gazes from his office in Vandenberg Center: "This is a city of contrasts. It is a bastion of the radical right, and yet there is a substantial liberal population." Lyndon Johnson, for example, took 57% of the vote in 1964, v. 43% for Barry Gold water. In 1972 Richard Nixon beat George Mc-Govern by almost exactly the same margin...