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AFTER A DELAY of almost two years, the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) began yesterday in Helsinki. The event was barely noticed in this country, and SALT possibly qualifies as the most neglected offspring of the Nixon Administration. The President has scarcely mentioned it in public, being more preoccupied with Vietnam and inflation. One could at least expect him to be concerned about the expense of an arms race. A momentous project like arms control requires vigorous leadership from Washington, which, except for John Mitchell, is a vacuum of such leader ship at the moment...
...offense threw the game away, managing to compile only 92 yards passing against a weak Brown secondary that had yielded almost 1000 in its previous seven games, and fumbling seven times, losing the ball on three occasions...
...cent of Boston's electorate, they alone could not put him in office, and what is politically incredible is the support he found in lily-white precincts where Hicks coasted to victory. For example, in Allston, hardly expected to be an Atkins stronghold, he ran second to Hicks in almost every precinct...
Sophisticated campaigning seems to be futile in a community that selects its councillors almost accidentally. The most effective approach is "street campaigning." where the candidate talks to the slice-of-life people at the subways and on the corners. Also valuable is word-of-mouth, or newspaper publicity, usually procured through the revelation of scandal...
LAST WINTER an album appeared on A and M records entitled The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark. The jacket featured a hill-billy type on a motorcycle passing a joint to another in a sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine...