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...responded to this by labeling Muskie's statement "a libel on the American conscience." Then with the pot-luck inspiration of the truly smart poker player, Citizen Richard re-inforced his statement by adding that he even had a specific black in mind who he felt would be an asset to any national ticket: Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts...
NIXON'S STATEMENT that he considered the man who had been largely responsible for the Administration's two major domestic embarrassments as an asset to any political ticket dispatched several platoons of media men to find out if Brooke would run if Nixon offered him the Vice-Presidency...
...infections are represented by Communism, bureaucrats, radicals and the welfare state; the healing antibodies are the traditional American virtues and verities. Perhaps it is the magazine's sanguine postulate that man can manage his destiny that has made it so resoundingly popular. Brevity, of course, is its other asset. Its assumption that even War and Peace could be cut to a few hours' reading brought sneers from the sophisticated, but the formula has proved useful and durable. The Digest now sells 18 million copies a month in the U.S. and 12 million abroad in 13 languages...
Charisma never was and never will be a negotiable asset of Nixon's, but the man who brought us the forgettable public tragedies of Checkers and Cambodia and the toothless tiger of Phase II has proven that we do not value charisma as much as we think we do. Or that, more precisely, charisma is not the sine qua non that it is cracked up to be. His career testifies that a patient, practised and lucky player can finesse a winner from a political hand as apparently irreparably weak as Nixon's was after his defeat in California...
...Lawrence's biggest asset is their goalie, Alan Howes, who came up with 44 saves against Notre Dame. Howes was named most valuable player of the tournament, and if he has a good game, it could be a pretty frustrating evening for Harvard's forwards...