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Wisconsin may be the make-or-break primary for Lindsay. He is low on funds and cannot continue his spending pace. In Wisconsin he can make the valid claim that he was the one candidate who fought Wallace all-out in Florida, despite the risks involved. That stance could prove helpful in Wisconsin's metropolitan areas and on campuses. But Lindsay's image as an alluring TV attraction was badly besmirched in Florida, where an expensive television drive failed to muster even a strong female following...
...wondered why Mills chose to run. He himself told the munching crowd of 500, "Frankly I think anyone who wants to be President must have a hole in his head." For someone who thinks that you have to be crazy to run for President Wilbur Mills is certainly making an all-out effort...
...Meadows team offers a possible cure for man's dilemma-an all-out effort to end exponential growth, starting by 1975. Population should be stabilized by equalizing the birth and death rates. To halt industrial growth, investment in new, nonpolluting plants must not exceed the retirement of old facilities. A series of fundamental shifts in behavioral patterns must take place. Instead of yearning for material goods, people must learn to prefer services, like education or recreation. All possible resources must be recycled, including the composting of organic garbage. Products like automobiles and TV sets must be designed to last...
...probable result: a Wallace plurality. A poll taken last fall by the Florida Democratic Party showed Wallace carrying 24% of the vote, compared with Muskie's 20% and Jackson's 6%. Muskie advisers concede Wallace's strength and, as a result, may not make an all-out effort in Florida, preferring to spend money and workers in more favorable political climates...
Black humor aside, there is no longer an easy or rational way to conclude the war in the foreseeable future. What began in 1968 as a nonviolent campaign for civil rights by Ulster's half-million Catholics?one-third of the North's population?has inexorably grown into an all-out campaign of terror by that most fabled and storied of guerrilla organizations, the Irish Republican Army. Best estimates are that the army in Northern Ireland numbers no more than 200 hard-core gunmen, and deaths and arrests have decimated its cadre of trained leaders. But the I.R.A. clearly...