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...Wilbur Mills, a late-starting write-in entry, drew a total of 13% of the vote and little encouragement. On the Republican side, Congressmen Paul McCloskey (20%) and John Ashbrook (10%), attacking the President from the left and right respectively, failed to mount any serious threat. Looking on from afar, Richard Nixon weighed in with a comfortable 69%. Only three days after the primary, McCloskey dropped out of the race...
...best American films of the fifties. Though it's somehow acquired a treacly pacifist reputation, it's actually World War I attrition portrayed by a man who could back wars--were they not all fought so stupidly. Kubrick took a single incident, a suicide mission commanded from afar by an ambitious martinet, and revealed 1917 savagery in microcosm: fixed infantry moving against armed fortifications, prey to flairs and automatic weapons; military structures staffed by lawyers at the trenches and deadwood aristocrats at the drafting-table; calls to duty and service which can't quell the fears of men in torpor...
...MOTHER teaches third grade in a ghetto grammar school on Chicago's South Side. As urban school systems have crumbled in recent years, teachers such as she have been increasingly berated. They have been charged from afar with destroying the minds of ghetto children, with arrogance and racism in the classroom, with a cynical desire merely to extract a paycheck from their job until they can transfer to a "better" school. They are an easy target...
...credit, Ziegler sought the widest possible audience in selecting 24 newspaper correspondents who represent 119 dailies. But he gave spots to Columnists William Buckley, Joseph Kraft and Richard Wilson, who presumably could analyze just as well from afar. He also awarded one place to the Reader's Digest, which has cordial relations with Nixon but neither covers the White House regularly nor is truly in the news business. The White House Correspondents Association protested the exclusion of four newspapers and radio chains that staff the White House full time...
...gulf was an unsettling blow to the Trucial States. One robed sheik explained why to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott as they sat sipping Evian water in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby. "We have a saying here that my next-door neighbor is my enemy, but the man from afar is my friend." So anxious was oil-rich Abu Dhabi to maintain a referee and peacekeeper in the area that it. quietly proposed to help cover British costs with a $60 million subsidy. When London demurred, the neighboring sheiks-who are all absolute monarchs-reluctantly began for the first time...