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Survival. The centrists will get the first opportunity to test their strength when the Democratic National Committee meets in December. A movement is afoot to topple the most visible symbol of McGovernism, Jean Westwood. The leading plotters are George Meany, eager to help reshape the party whose candidate he disdained; his chief political lieutenant, Al Barkan, director of Big Labor's Committee on Political Education (COPE); and Scoop Jackson, one of the most vehement of McGovern's preconvention rivals. They are even supported by some McGovern followers, who describe Westwood as a "scheming nonentity." Potential replacements include Robert...
...were signs in the explosive events of last week that the new role was proving to be as slippery as the old one. Although TIME had learned and published the outline of the secret agreements, there was no public confirmation of them until Saigon's fulminations against what was afoot and moves by Washington to seek more negotiations panicked a suspicious Hanoi into breaking its secrecy agreements with the U.S. and broadcasting the details. That in turn forced Washington to its public commitment, through Henry Kissinger, to the success of an extraordinarily intricate enterprise...
...Fiedler claimed that the undirected turmoil of the New Left is what killed off concurrent cultural progress, it actually appears that there is now a new health afoot both in the arts and politics since the all inclusive youth frenzy panned out (proving itself to be largely a media invention). People have begun to realize that social change requires patience and effectively planned political action. And, as such faddists as Andrew Sarris in film and Susan Sontag in literature hang themselves by the ropes of their own silliness, the realization seems to have been reached that art--even...
...There's a movement afoot in the Chemistry Department to limit enrollment," Fox said Thursday. "But it's being hotly contested." He added that such limits underline the tremendous grade pressure on "premed students, equally stremed by grade screening procedures of the medical schools themselves...
Despite the criticism, Mauriac's antismoking crusade seems to have become a permanent fixture. The 143-member nonsmokers association has placed at the town's four entrances blue-and-white signs reading MAURIAC, THE FIRST CITY IN THE WORLD TO HAVE SAID "NO" TO TOBACCO. There are already plans afoot to launch a second antitobacco offensive this summer. Visitors, many of them smokers seeking a cure, are still pouring in and bolstering local businesses?including the tobacco shops...