GREAT BRITAIN: Somebody Out There Likes Us

Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's. Last week, fresh back from six weeks in the U.S., Worsthorne reported in London's Daily Telegraph his sharp disagreement with the image, "popular in some quarters, of a nation sick and lethargic after eight years of the Eisenhower Administration."

"I am sure," wrote Worsthorne, "that history will look back on the Eisenhower era as ideal for incubation ... In America today the result of Eisenhower has been to produce a generation of public men who are not only 'raring to go'...

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