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...because there were no proper boxes. In another precinct, the election supervisor was reported to be reading ballots before putting them in the box. At yet another polling place, Police Officer James Jablonski reported, precinct officials consulted a list of names and repeatedly cast ballots. Explained one with striking candor: "We just have six more to do. These are ghost voters." When an official offered Jablonski a wad of bills if he would forget what he had seen, he arrested them for attempted bribery, ballot-box stuffing and tampering with election materials...
...Senate campaign between Republic Sen. Edward Brooke and Democratic Challenger Paul Tsongas has lacked much of the candor and opportunism found in the gubernatorial race. Both men have campaigned professionally, sticking with the issues and rising above personalities. But still there are sharp differences. Brooke, the sleek Washington insider, deserves great credit for his leadership in the fight for human services and rights, especially in the areas of federal housing and abortion rights. But there is the other side of Ed Brooke; the manipulative politician with an abysmal consumer voting record who has garnered tens of thousands of dollars...
...alternatives to Stage 2, Administration planners believe, are worse. In a burst of candor, COWPS Director Barry Bosworth said that if the plan fails, the U.S. will face a "cruel choice" of outright wage-price controls or recession. Some non-Government economists, including Democrats Arthur Okun and Walter Heller, also believe a recession is becoming more likely, partly because inflation is eating up consumer purchasing power, partly because the Federal Reserve Board is pushing interest rates so high...
...Lenny ideally should have peaked intellectually and physically during 1967. Lenny was right for my period of growing up, and he influenced a lot of people, including myself. I loved the candor. I loved the facility for laying it out just as he saw it. I think art requires honesty and a few risks...
...returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure on me," he said. "Being No. 1 is the loneliest job in the world...