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...rating could fall even further. Only a few weeks ago, Congressmen visiting their districts were hearing almost nothing about Lance from constituents. Now some of them are hearing almost nothing else. Reports from TIME's U.S. bureaus confirm this concern. Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch noted that Carter's support of Lance?"Bert, I'm proud of you"?is proving costly: "With that declaration Carter managed to obliterate the one element that made him different?the innocence of the outsider, the incorruptibility of the unentrenched. That difference was his major hold on the American people." Other bureaus saw that...
Spain's Communist leaders remained unruffled. For one thing, such attacks from Moscow seem to confirm Carrillo's independence and could thus increase his party's popularity among Spanish voters. For another, as Party Spokesman Angel Mullor explained, the article "has not surprised us in any way. What is lamentable is that it shows the inability of its authors [to discuss] these themes without prejudice and obstinate dogma...
...multiple-digit statistics simply confirm what the smell of fat frying across the land has long made clear. Americans in massive numbers daily ignore the hand-wringing of nutritionists, the sneers of gourmets and the prickings of their own consciences. For them, fast food takes the worry out of being hungry. A first visit to an outlet of an unfamiliar chain may cause some anxiety and confusion; dazzling permutations on the basic hamburger, bearing odd, hyped-up names, take some time to master, much less understand. But a snack that hits the spot on one day is likely...
...some of his colleagues will testify, the McCarthy period probably only helped to confirm Fairbank's long-standing cynicism about the possibilities of cross-cultural understanding and social change. As Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, who was one of Fairbank's graduate students after the war says, "Everyone would accept the view that we have a tendency to be culture-bound, but not everyone would stress it as much." And Thomson calls Fairbank an "historical pessimist" who "does not believe in the perfectibility of people or their institutions...
Arrived Empty. Port records confirm that the Scheersberg A arrived empty on Dec. 2. Three days later, most of the Spanish crew who had been dismissed in Rotterdam on Nov. 15 were called back to the ship at Palermo. Curious about its recent travels, some crewmen looked for the ship's log. They found that the pages for the previous 21/2 weeks had been ripped...