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ALTHOUGH the groups primary goal is to win control of the National Democratic party, most elements of the NDC couple this with afar-reaching program of reform. Some of the leaders and many of the workers in the NDC have actually stated that they would rather not have control of the Party in 1972 if it did not come through instituting a program of reform. The Coalition has four essential reform goals...
...Regarding the speculation as to the future of Mr. Robert Finch [Nov. 29], close adviser to President-elect Nixon: I have been a Robert Finch watcher since my freshman days at Inglewood High, Inglewood, Calif. ('43), when I observed this talented and qualified senior from afar. The graduating-class book of that year is a chronicle of the young Robert Finch-everything from president of the senior class and letterman in sports to star of the senior-class play (Death Takes a Holiday). But my most vivid recollection is, I am sure, one of his very first quotes...
Catch the Train. Much as Oregon enjoys cutting front runners down to size, it apparently has no use at all for those who essay politicking from afar. Nixon conducted a skillful, low-pressure campaign that allowed him to say at the end: "The voters of Oregon have spoken, and I like the sound of their voices." Also listening closely were the uncommitted party leaders, such as Washington Governor Dan Evans, who chatted with Nixon last week and then said of other G.O.P. chiefs: "When the train leaves the station, everyone wants to be aboard...
...taking his turn as chief of state of the federation's government, a job that rotates among the sheiks. Most of the other sheiks were off in Geneva, talking with a delegation of U.N. independence observers who had prudently decided to do their observing from afar...
...inside the country. They wish the outside would disappear and not bother them. This is very different from a seafaring country including not only the Japanese, ourselves and the British--but all these countries around the world, particularly in Europe, who, living on peninsulas, became seafaring and voyaged afar...