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Secret Admirers. Morse's skill as a parliamentarian has helped save many Administration bills, and last month it helped the Democratic majority push through the biggest school-aid-authori-zation bill in history. By the time he takes the floor with a bill, Morse, No. 2 Democrat on the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, knows not only every detail in the bill but also who will oppose it-and just when he must compromise. He is consulted by the President on every important labor dispute. But primarily because of his Viet Nam policy, Morse's longtime supporter, Oregon...
...finance political campaigns-honestly, adequately and from a far broader base-is surely one of U.S. democracy's biggest unsolved problems as it enters another presidential election year. As the nation grows, candidates must spend more and more to reach more and more people; while TV now puts office seekers in every living room, the enormous cost drains party budgets. Given most voters' financial apathy, the net result is a qualification for office unspecified in the Constitution: a candidate must now be rich or have rich friends or run the risk of making himself beholden to big contributors...
...proved that a polemicist can be elected Governor just by saying the right thing to the right people. He did not even give away campaign buttons: he sold them. In 1964, Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency cost the most ever ($19.3 million) and lost by the biggest margin ever. What Goldwater also did was to bring the Republican Party 72% of its gifts in amounts of less than $500, making the G.O.P. for the first time in 106 years the party of the smaller contributor. This was largely the accomplishment of a zealous minority who cared about...
...economy of Lebanon, battered by a loss of tourist business as a result of the Arab-Israeli war, got a welcome lift on the home front last week. After a 15-month shutdown in the wake of the biggest banking scandal in Lebanese history, Intra Bank reopened its doors for business. The reopening quickly drew a crowd so large that police had to be called to control it. Not surprisingly, the throng consisted mainly of Intra Bank customers anxious to get their savings out rather than to put more Lebanese pounds...
North Dakota, which Harvard faced December 27 lost by one goal to Cornell in the NC AA championships last year, and appears to the biggest threat. Outside of the NCAA's 1.6 rule to the Big Red this season. Harvard stayed with the long at the start, and trilled only 2-1 after a period, but five second-period goals wrapped, the game up for North Dakota...