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...salty talk with the 33rd President, has sold 2½ million copies. Margaret Truman Daniel's affectionate memoir will be filmed this fall. James Whitmore's theatrical impersonation, Give 'Em Hell Harry! (TIME, May 12) is playing to S.R.O. audiences all across the country. A singularly ardent fan of the Truman boom is Gerald Ford, who recently assured Mrs. Daniel, "Everyone who knows me knows how I feel about your father."* Such high-level boosterism has given the country a sudden fit of Trumania. In addition to the books, there are Truman T shirts, bumper stickers...
...cent, rising to a surprising 67 per cent in 1966. But in 1967, he voted against OEO, Model Cities, and a federal rat control program--the Great Society left Gerry behind. In 1971, he was voting with congressional conservatives 87 per cent of the time, the second most ardent Nixon supporter...
...wonders also whatever happened to the left's ardent support for democracy. In the Florida presidential primary in March 1972, 74 per cent voted against busing in a referendum included on the ballot. This matches what the public opinion polls have been saying for years. It is clear that the people do not support forced busing. What is becoming more clear is that the people have no control over the state...
...business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume. There followed destructive "back office" paper jams, missing stock certificates and theft. In recent weeks, firms have easily shouldered daily trading volume that would have smothered many of them a few years ago. Even so ardent a foe of negotiated commissions as James J. Needham, chief of the New York Stock Exchange, concedes that brokers are ready for Mayday. Says he: "They're about as trim as they could...
What ensues is not outrage, vituperation or divorce, but smug Shavian homilies on the double standard and the right of women to economic self-determination. Incontestable Constance takes a job as an interior decorator and decamps for a six-week fling with an ardent old beau...