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EDWARD ALBEE once wrote a play about a middle-aged couple who, before putting Grandma permanently in the sandbox with a toy shovel, gave her a nice place to live under the stove, with an Army blanket and her very own dish. The play contains more truth than allegory. One of the poignant trends of U.S. life is the gradual devaluation of older people, along with their spectacular growth in numbers. Twenty million Americans are 65 or over. They have also increased proportionately, from 2.5% of the nation's population in 1850 to 10% today...
...15th District, right in the Princeton backyard of the M.N.C. No one can fault the students' energy; they got 3,000 more voters to take part in the congressional primary than voted in a U.S. Senate primary in the same district. But an analysis showed that blanket canvassing in pro-Kaden areas brought Patten voters out as well...
...Nixon Administration normally takes little note of criticism by black militants, campus radicals and war dissenters. Last week, however, it appeared severely stung when the annual convention of the moderate N.A.A.C.P. gave an ovation of cheers to a blanket denunciation of the Administration's racial policies by the organization's board chairman, Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood. The 72-year-old black leader accused the Administration of being anti-Negro and charged that it has adopted a "calculated policy to work against the needs and aspirations of the largest minority of its citizens...
...straight white course hairs growing all over his face and head. He was wrapped in a super-large suit coat that didn't match his tattered pants. His stomach was enormous and there were red sores on his ankles. And two kids were sitting in a doorway with a blanket, looking...
...Clean" Strategy. While the election outcome did little to help Alabama's image, blanket denunciations of the state's voters are unfair. Wallace got only 51.5% of the total. His margin was a mere 32,000 votes out of the 1,074,000 cast-a comedown from the 72,000 votes by which he won a similar runoff in 1962 and the 237,000 by which his late wife Lurleen won the Democratic primary for Governor in 1966. More than half a million voters refused to go along with George this time, although possibly half of those were...