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Muskie's cause was not helped in the final days of the campaign by his weepy response to the attacks of William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader. When it became apparent that his margin was fraying, Muskie belatedly returned to the state for five last days of blitz campaigning. In a campaign devoid of any single burning issue, he abandoned his customary pitch as a "national" candidate and unabashedly sought support on the basis of "regionalism." Alluding to the New England "sense of community," he told a gathering in the paper-mill town of Berlin...
...mood was not really comparable to the World War II blitz; as one London lady remarked, "Then you suffered in the certain knowledge that victory would bring a better world; now we are pretty certain that no matter what, things will get worse...
...biggest worry is a relentless blitz of Government agencies, led by the Federal Trade Commission, to purge extravagant claims or outright deception in advertising and put more straight information into ads. Under its aggressive chairman, Lawyer Miles Kirkpatrick, the FTC last week hurled its latest bombshell. In an unprecedented action, it proposed that the nation's four largest cereal makers be broken up into smaller companies, partly on grounds that their lavish ad campaigns enabled them to keep out competitors and inflate prices. Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods and Quaker Oats were also accused by the agency of falsely...
...Griese knows, and his knowledge borders on the mystical. Take the blitz. "It's funny," he says. "Sometimes you can look into their eyes and you can tell they're blitzing." Buffalo Safety Pete Richardson is bugged by the Griese gaze: "He always seems to know which way I'm going. It's like he's looking into my head...
...shadow that fell across O'Casey's Dublin during the 1920s has become the specter that terrorizes contemporary Ulster. Sections of Londonderry and Belfast are as desolated as London during the blitz, and the scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh...