Word: candidness
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...when clinicians for poor, especially black areas, are in seriously short supply. The notion that scientific knowledge given during the first two years of med school is more difficult for some blacks than it is for some whites may be true, and if so, then both sides should be candid about it. After all, if blacks are admitted from schools thought to be disadvantaged themselves, why should administrators expect that they should be on par with other students immediately...
...husband-wife team? Might that not be carrying nepotism a bit far? And would it not be the wrong way for women to score the breakthrough? Still, the thought of Vice President Betty, tossing off refreshingly candid and sensible thoughts about almost anything, is intriguing. Too bad Ronald Reagan, so eager to jolt the nomination race open with a startling vice-presidential choice, did not try to unify the party with Betty. For that matter, imagine that Jimmy Carter, in a mood of bipartisan unity and love, had selected Betty. That twosome might well have won the White House...
...climax to one of the Republican Party's most intriguing and bitterly contested presidential nomination fights was only two weeks away and yet the outcome was still in doubt. In their more candid moments, campaign aides to President Gerald Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan agreed to a surprising degree on how the battle shaped up. "I don't think there's any lockup available in this campaign," observed Ford's chairman, Rogers Morton. Said the President's chief delegate hunter, James Baker: "We're a hundred votes ahead of them...
Walker seemed more disturbed, or perhaps only more candid, than Bayi about the Tanzanian decision. "We're sportsmen," he fumed last weekend. "It's bloody crazy to make us into politicians." Then, trying to take the edge off his disappointment, he added: "The 1,500 will still be a good race. There are other good 1,500 men around." Kenya's Mike Boit, Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan and the United States' Rick Wohlhuter are indeed good 1,500 men, athletes who in any other race would rarely suffer the tag of also-rans...
Pike, who was frankness personified, picked the title Nothing to Hide for the autobiography he never actually wrote. Now this biography (The Death and Life of Bishop Pike; Doubleday; $10), by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, is even more candid than Pike was in life. The book has full backing from the bishop's last wife, Diane Kennedy Pike, whose introduction calls it "sensitively written" and adds "It has been my joy to cooperate with the authors." The authors tell in some detail how Diane became Pike's mistress long before they were married and nearly a year...