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...categorically asserts that the abuses are the result of "profiteering" by local doctors and merchants and "chaotic and irresponsible mismanagement" by the Governor and his Public Welfare Director Robert...
...maybe because of the incompetence and laziness of Wallace's small, sinister-looking entourage, or more likely because of the very fact that Wallace's candidacy is the only one of the three that owes its existence to mass support rather than organizational backing--the Wallace campaign looks more chaotic and uninteliigible from up close than it does from a distance...
Traveling in the wake of Wallace's chaotic crusade, however, it's hard to become terribly worried about things like this. The hopelessness of reporting Wallace's one disorganized, idiotic speech in any way that would stop his complaining about the fancy eastern press is the first thing that makes traveling with him so odd. Wallace's famous hatred of the press, combined with the reporters' bemused contempt for Wallace, has created a strangely jocular atmosphere between the press and the candidate...
...Macaroni Factory. The current crisis has its origins in the chaotic conditions that prevailed in France after World War II. In 1949, Jean Prouvost, a press baron (Paris-Match, Paris-Soir) as well as France's largest woolens manufacturer, purchased a controlling interest in Figaro. But because he had served briefly in the collaborationist Vichy regime, both Gaullists and leftists opposed letting him assume editorial command. So he signed an agreement with Figaro's noted editor, Pierre Brisson, who had killed off the paper during World War II rather than knuckle under to the Nazis. The agreement gave...
...another opening that Humphrey quickly exploited-particularly because of the image it conveyed of the Republican Party as the representative of Wall Street fat cats. "Mr. Nixon," he said, "would encourage those same speculative excesses that once before plunged this country into chaotic depression and brought vast losses to investors." In general, Humphrey worked hard to stress the traditional bread-and-butter issue, trying to revive past fears that a Republican Administration would "take it away." But Nov. 5 is probably too close for any of this to hurt Nixon appreciably. For one thing, it became clear that Hubert Humphrey...