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...doesn't have it. His personality leaves me cold." If the campaign turns out to focus on personality, McGovern's chances apparently would improve. "He doesn't doubletalk; he knows how to make himself a part of the people rather than just a politician," argues Billing Clerk Lynda Bialy, a young voter in Buffalo, N.Y. Surprisingly, only one out of seven who expect to vote for McGovern will do so on the basis of any specific issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues. For the first...
...share to between 7% and 9% in the next four years. One reason is its new machines. Burroughs has brought out a series of small computers that fill a link in its product line. These machines rent for about $1,500 a month, can be run by an office clerk, and are designed for small companies, branch banks and hospitals. Burroughs already has orders for 100 new computers...
...story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now resign themselves to old age and death, in a manner so dignified that it bespeaks a stoic philosophy, a metaphysical experience of life...
...Texas State Representative Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for TV's Archie Bunker, Martha Mitchell and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. It was, said Mankiewicz, "like the last day of school." Because the clerk misheard a name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally, in a grace note that brought the convention to its feet cheering, the Alabama delegation cast all of its 37 votes for Eagleton, explaining that had Wallace been the nominee, he would have wanted the right...
...getting around, discouraging paper hangers from even trying their craft in stores that require thumbprints. Authorities estimate that the rate of bad checks has been cut by 50% in most such outlets. The devices have proved doubly effective at some stores. Last month an Alec department store clerk in Colma, Calif., refused to accept the check of a man who balked at being fingerprinted. The customer eventually cashed his check-which bounced the next day-around the corner at Alec's competitor...