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Under Jenkins' velvet exterior, though, ripples a thick political hide. As Aviation Minister in 1965-he became Home Secretary the same year-Jenkins withstood heavy Tory fire for canceling construction of three new types of planes and insisting that the British aviation industry reorganize. He firmly believes that the British people will accept sacrifices, provided that these will bring a "sharp break with the weaknesses of the past." The British learned a little bit more last week about just how much they will be asked to sacrifice. Partly in order to get a $1.4 billion credit from the International...
...battle for Eastern hockey supremacy begins tonight, Harvard should be right in the thick...
Under Editor Luman H. Long, a staff of eight put out the nearly two- inch-thick book. About half of the Almanac is carried over from previous years; the rest consists of new facts and figures. The 1968 edition, for instance, contains the zip code for all communities of more than 2,500 population and color pictures of the flags of all nations, including those of newly independent Guyana (red, green and yellow) and Botswana (white, black and blue). Even so, fact-hungry readers are never satisfied. When the Almanac tries to drop some marginalia, such as the gestation period...
Rats in the Cordage. When Wilson writes about a woman, the malice is tangibly thick: "Her heavy amber earrings and amber necklace, her dyed black hair done in earphones so dead and scurfy that one felt that if they were lifted moths would fly out of them, her dreadful arch smile . . ." Are such caricatures intended to portray poor old Britannia? The tone is wrong for a grand historical novel; the sound is not of a foundering vessel but of rats in the stores and cordage...
...remains McNamara's tragedy, perhaps, despite the power of his arguments that he has frequently failed to appreciate the political consequences of his decisions. For his deployment of a thin ABM system may in time generate pressure to build a far more costly, unnecessary "thick" system to defend against the Russians...