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Certainly the Marylander will be no asset to the ticket among Negro voters, although it is doubtful that Nixon will get much black support in any case. Agnew may be helpful, on the other hand, in the border regions and some Southern states, such as Virginia, Texas, Florida and North Carolina, in which Nixon has a fighting chance to best George Wallace. This is what Nixon men call a ''peripheral strategy," more or less conceding the Deep South to Wallace. To capture the Presidency, however, the Republicans must sweep much of the West as well, while carrying some...
Daltrey too is an impressive asset to the group, marvelously tuned as he is to the Townshend-Moon beat. A really tough man, he sings with great overflowing zeal for the material and of course his controlled hysteria on stage--flailing arms, slinging mike, tossing haunches--is legendary...
...Relevant to your statement that "tolerance-at least on the surface-is the conciliator's biggest asset," I would like to quote from E. M. Forster's Two Cheers for Democracy...
...left, there are three groupings: the Communists; the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, led by 1965 Presidential Runner-Up François Mitterrand; and the Unified Socialist Party, a doctrinaire faction whose prime asset is its most illustrious member, Fourth Republic Premier Pierre Mendès-France, 61. It seems likely that Mitterrand's party and the Communists will each enter a full slate of competing first-round candidates in France's 487 electoral districts. But they are likely to combine forces and throw their votes in the final round to the strongest candidate from either...
Though the Dunfeys often operate under franchises, President John Dunfey says that the family's chief asset is its effort "to keep the personal involvement in the business that we had when we had just a hot-dog stand." To keep up "the spirit and warmth of the old Yankee taverns," the Dunfey inns lure travelers with such country titles as "Cracker Barrel Lounge...