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...another reflection of antiscience sentiment: the current movement toward the occult, parapsychology, astrology, faith healing and all the other crackpot beliefs...
With antigovernment sentiment on the rise, Labor whips hoped to end debate without a vote on the White Paper by moving to adjourn the House of Commons. When it became clear that Labor could not even muster a majority on that, Callaghan and his grinning supporters stayed on their benches while opposition members filed out to vote. Did the resounding 293-to-0 defeat mean the government's White Paper was dead? Technically no, since the vote was only on whether to go home for a night's sleep...
...French, who insisted that the anti-Concorde sentiment was part of a conspiracy launched by the U.S. aerospace industry. Said one Transportation Ministry official: "It is obvious that builders who have 90% of the [aviation] market would be hostile to anything that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters...
...Senator Hubert Humphrey, .for example, earned $81,000 in speaking engagements in one year, George McGovern $80,000. (Humphrey has never been secretive about such benefits; a sign in his Waverly, Minn., home proclaims: THE HOUSE THAT WIND BUILT.) Yet the limitation is expected to pass. Explaining the prevailing sentiment, one supporter of the code said: "People who come to the Senate rich can't be made poor. But people who come to the Senate poor shouldn't leave rich...
...government defeat was the climax to a long and somewhat cynical campaign by Laborites and Tories alike to check the growing influence of nationalist sentiment in Scotland. Building on Scots' resentment at being treated like country cousins by Westminster -and fueled by the development of North Sea oil off Scotland's coast-the independence-minded Scottish National Party in the past six years has become second only to Labor as the most powerful party in Scotland. With many of Labor's traditionally safe seats in danger during the 1974 election campaigns, worried leaders came up with...