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...adjusted by simple administrative action, if Dr. Bay and other officials are willing. Salaries and civil service grades are rigidly controlled by the state legislature. "We expect more of our aides at Topeka State than they do in less dynamic institutions," says Bay in a sort of proud apologia. And the aides expect more of State than they have been granted. When they get it, Kansas may again lead the nation in the quality of care given its mental patients...
...anything, last week's consensus statement simply made matters worse. In persuading Gallup to endorse the apologia, Harris may have widened the trade's credibility gap to the dimensions of 1948, when virtually every opinion sampling was ushering New York's Thomas E. Dewey into the White House. Twenty years later, the memory of that year sends shudders down the spines of all pollsters. One pollster called last week's results "a fiasco." Another, Burns Roper, observed: "If this statement of 'open lead' for Rockefeller is construed by readers as being designed to influence...
...BOYS IN THE BAND. Mart Crowley s comedy makes no apologia for the homosexual society, but uses it as a frame within which to hang the skeins of diverse lives, while unraveling some of the knots in which human beings tie themselves. Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson and Cliff Gorman lead an exemplary ensemble through assaults of sharp-edged humor and barrages of put-down gags...
CHAPPAQUA. Instead of writing his autobiography, Conrad Rooks has made an 82-minute apologia pro sua dolce vita on film, playing himself as the mixed-up son of a rich man who spirals downward into the junkie's world of hallucination and finally emerges to self-realization...
CHAPPAQUA. Conrad Rooks gives his own 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...