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...would not even have guessed at the romance until three weeks ago. Now the great weight of sedate judgment was making itself felt: the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of such powerful leaders of Conservative thought as the Marquess of Salisbury, and of the cautious, conservative and pious segment of nonconformist believers throughout the land. In the wake of this slow gathering of substantial opinion, many a lighter-hearted Briton was forced to forget the sentiment and take stock of the significance of Margaret's apparently firm intention to marry outside her church and outside the stern limitations...
Only on one big segment of government spending did the Chancellor's ax fall heavily. While the Labor benches resounded to cries of "Resign! Resign!", he slashed housing subsidies, except for slum clearances, and shelved the government's plans to build new offices for the British embassy in Washington (saving...
...ridden trails, painted the colorings, read the local history, gone fishing, driven back in his father-in-law's Packard from Eldorado Springs on the first trip he had taken after his wedding. Contemplating it, he seemed unusually relaxed and contented, for here was the segment of land that he had always most liked to come back to. Suddenly from below, from the croquet garden of the hospital, came shouts denoting that here was another day, spent in Colorado, to be remembered. "Happy Birthday, Ike," several convalescent patients were calling up to him. "Happy Birthday, Mr. President...
...signers of the "Chicago Draft" was Stringfellow Barr, former president of St. John's College at Annapolis, who represents a distinct segment of the world government movement. For Barr forgets about a political federation, at least for the time present, and instead faces the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped peoples. In Let's Join the Human Race he outlines a plan for a giant International development Authority, similar to this country's T.V.A. Clearly, the Cold War had driven Barr and others to Asia, where the need for food and medicine overshadowed vague plans of politized federation...
Randall condemned "American business [which] cannot operate without a high protective tariff. You cannot benefit one segment of the American people by a high protective tariff unless some other segment pays for it. You can restrict the flow of Venezuelan oil to the United States. When you do that, you make all of New England take a higher power cost because its fuel will cost more. The ultimate payoff is with the consumer...