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THIS week, as the U.S. inaugurates a new President, TIME adds a special 20-page section to its regular issue. The section attempts to assess the quality of U.S. life at this point in the nation's history, to examine the problems that face the new Administration and to suggest some of the promising paths for the future...
...Gallup exclusive access to them. In the 20 hours available to him, Gallup produced several pages of detailed notes for the Times Literary Supplement, plus four illustrations photographed from the text. Of 57 sheets in the original Waste Land, 42 were unused; it is impossible at this stage to assess how much Ole Ez (as Pound liked to sign himself to friends) cut out, and to what extent Eliot was his own critic. But it is clear that a unique collaboration was involved in the birth of a masterpiece, and the honorary midwife deserves all credit for so splendid...
...difficult to assess just what effect, if any, the Harvard crew had on the U.S. team or on the American public. One less committed oarsman commented, "The leaders had an inflated idea of their own importance. I don't think there were any significant effects of our stand...
Over plates of fried chicken, some reporters who had been traveling with Wallace talked about the campaign. They felt a little confused by what they had seen: the sources and meaning of Wallace's northern support were hard to assess, and they agreed that what they needed was to spend a little time in some northern cities in advance of a Wallace visit, talking to workers and union people, trying to find out what Wallace's "good folks" really have on their minds. But that means leaving Wallace himself for a few days, and this poses a problem...
...strong and consistent lobby for progressive government during the Nixon Administration. Already, one major feature of the Nixon platform--the decentralizing "black power" approach to the ghettoes--traces back to a paper prepared by a Ripon member at the Institute of Politics at Harvard. But it is difficult to assess the real meaning of his plan as Nixon expounds it--or the importance the candidate genuinely attaches to it in a year when every presidential aspirant is required to produce some kind of "solution" for the ghetto. Thus the Republican liberals have not yet scored any solid victories for their...