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...McGovern, that strategy has not only been shrewd; it has been necessary. When he announced for the presidency more than a year ago, there was skepticism, irreverence, even downright disbelief. But George Stanley McGovern, 49, once an obscure prairie politician, has somehow struck a responsive chord in the voters; he is now ahead in the extraordinary testing of Democratic presidential postulants in 1972. With Muskie out of the race, McGovern's chief rival is Humphrey, the ever-ebullient 1968 nominee, a hardy perennial compared to the burgeoning McGovern. If his momentum holds, McGovern could well take the Democratic nomination...
...stitched together by its various theorists, populism calls for a drastic overhaul of the nation's economy-a kind of bargain-basement socialism. Its chief demand is one that has struck so responsive a chord in America that even President Nixon has started formulating a program of tax reform. Nothing has more outraged Middle-Forgotten-Populist Man as much as the fact that the wealthy often escape taxes while he is forced to cough up more and more. In calling for a fairer system and a closing of loopholes, the populists are being no more than eminently sensible. They...
...Boys and girls, I buy it. Just keep the beat and the chord changes simple. And don't forget to put a cross on the jacket cover...
...York City police have no hard evidence implicating the league. But there is no escaping the league's ultimate connection with the attacks. Its message of violence and hate has struck a responsive chord with a tiny but clearly dangerous element among American Jews. Ironically, Hurok is Jewish, as was the bomber's victim, Iris Kones...
Hayes' most notable contribution to pop so far has been to introduce the "rap" into the top 40. While the organ holds a chord, Hayes talks for as much as ten minutes-or sermonizes, as in his preamble to Never Can Say Goodbye: "We as humans have a tendency to let two things run away from us: our pride and ego." At first the raps were a way to get nightclub audiences quiet. Then they became a bridge between white men's songs (Hayes' favorites: Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach) and black audiences. Of his 18-minute...