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Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York best summed up his colleagues' sentiments: "It's a choice between sure disaster if we pull out and possible disaster if we stay. It's a very unhappy choice...
Every Main Street, U.S.A., needs a few vital businesses: a grocery store, a pharmacy, a barber shop and a bank. So when the Bank of America decided to close its branch in Piru, Calif, (pop. 1,284), the residents felt stranded. They would now be forced to drive eight miles on a winding road to Fillmore (pop. 9,602) to do their banking. "We didn't realize that people would get as excited as they did," said Thomas Beeler, the bank's area manager, after facing 100 shouting citizens at a Piru town meeting...
...good deal of the blame for today's exaggerated political uproar belongs to television, which turns politics into programmed entertainment. The more extreme the event, the more TV air time it tends to get. James David Barber of Duke University believes that the networks will have more to say about who the presidential candidates will be next year than the political parties; hence all the witless clamor...
...Paul Barber Colorado Springs, Colo...
...packing controversy of 1937 and then entertained the idea of running for a third term, insists Political Specialist Richard Scammon. Then too the nation was mesmerized by the man, either his evil intentions or his genius, depending on one's persuasion. Duke University's astute James David Barber calls Reagan "the great diverter," an actor who plays to television impresarios (who, he says, tend to be gullible) by tossing out distracting ideas like New Federalism, star wars and merit pay for teachers...