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...groups differ demographically. The classical conservatives are more apt to have college educations (23% v. 11% of the resentful group), professional or white-collar jobs (35% v. 19%), working wives (31% v. 22%), annual incomes of $15,000 or more (30% v. 12%) and live in the West (17% v. 6%) but not in the South...
...Gentlemen, I'm sorry to say it, but I'm not the bearer of good tidings," St. Clair began. Then he explained the nature of the new evidence, which was soon to be described as more than the long-sought "smoking pistol" and actually, in the apt phrase of Columnist George F. Will, akin to a "smoking howitzer." St. Clair said flatly that he had been ready to resign if Nixon had opposed release of the material. "I have my professional reputation to think about," he explained, adding that any other action would have been to withhold evidence...
...apt to be a circular dilemma: Is a leader chosen only after a critical, reasonably mature, well-informed public has decided roughly where it wants to be led; or does a leader appear first to tell the public where it wants to be led? Woodrow Wilson held that leadership is "interpretation" or articulation: "The forces of the public thought may be blind; [the leader] must lend them sight; they may blunder; he must set them right." But Wilson cautioned that the leader must not get too far ahead of his public: "He must read the common thought; he must test...
...financing of campaigns. Says Jean Marie Maher, a political consultant in California, "While contributors might write a check for $500 or $1,000 for a man, if the candidate is a woman, they write a check for $100." A Harvard Business Review study shows that male executives are more apt to discipline women for minor infractions than men, go to far greater lengths to retain male employees, and tend to hire and promote male managers rather than females with virtually identical qualifications...
Jann Wenner, 28, is known around the San Francisco offices of the biweekly Rolling Stone as "Citizen Wenner." The more or less jocular analogy to William Randolph Hearst is apt: Wenner is a brilliant, brash autocrat with an eye for lucrative markets and talented writers. Perceiving a vast audience for a rock-music magazine, he borrowed $7,500, produced his first issue in 1967. Since then, the staff has grown from six to 90, circulation has jumped to 415,000, and Stone's irreverent, meandering and sometimes erratic reportage has been extended to politics and society in general...