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Despite the pro forma disclaimers, Woodward and Bernstein weave a brisk and convincing narrative in their sequel to the bestselling All the President's Men. They do not alter the broad outlines of the now-familiar drama of Watergate. But with their spare, police-beat style, they do manage to pin down each painful, often poignant detail as the curtain dropped on a collapsing President and an embittered staff...
...obvious that in every campaign there are mistakes and that a major difference between the winners and the losers is that those campaigns which have the money or the time are able to recoup, regroup and alter strategy. Yet almost every decision in the Bayh campaign was dictated by money constraints and made so late that they were binding for the duration. There was no flexibility, and not even Boston's political Vince Lombardi, Mr. Walsh, can predict the future with perfection. It was lack of time, not bad decisions, that...
Some students, however, have not noticed any improvement in their living conditions, "I just can't see that anything's been done," Aaron J. Alter '79, a Hurlbut resident, said yesterday...
...after all, have left their families and friends at home, determined to try Western ways, to adopt Western habits. But affinities for certain foods and repulsion to others are so much a part of you by the time you're in college, several students suggest, it's difficult to alter them. "I came here to meet Westerners," Indian Rekha Nimgade says, and she feels so strongly about their companionship that the presence of Westerners is about the only thing that could drive her into a pizza parlor...
...many ways, the migrants from the North and the East are helping to alter the character of the South, which is becoming both more sophisticated and more homogenized. On the whole, Yankees who move there find themselves welcomed, mostly because they bring new money, skills and opportunity with them. At the same time, the South is changing the carpetbaggers in a number of respects. Sometimes there is no Southerner more given to Southern style and sense of place than the Confederate from, say, Chicago-the Yankee Good...