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...while the war in Southeast Asia predictably has dropped sharply as a topic of public concern. (Crime and drugs have also dropped considerably.) Paradoxically, most Americans - a surprising 89% - feel that things are going well in their own personal lives. It is because of that, the Yankelovich analysts contend, that Americans have been able to view Watergate with moderation and a balanced perspective. The public even sees in Watergate some hopeful portents for the future. Fully 73% believe that the searching examination of the Watergate transgressions "will strengthen our democratic process and improve the moral standards of the country...
Being President of the United States is not like being president of a corporation or a university, that is true. But there are elements of the job that require the same grubby, grinding attention to detail, to people, to events. If the men who contend for the White House fancy themselves above that kind of work, then perhaps the time has come to consider some kind of Executive Vice President with the duty to run the place as it should be run-from Washington...
...King, in particular, became something of a heroine of the women's movement, although, like Mrs. Riggs, she is no ideologue. So Bobby teased King: "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable to men's. I challenge you to prove it. I contend that you not only cannot beat a top male player, but that you can't beat me, a tired old man." Billie Jean refused the gauntlet the first time around because, she says, "we didn't need him, we were making it on our own merits...
...already reached 300 bu. Soybean yields have risen by half a bushel an acre per year for the past ten years, to about 30 bu. The Government figures that by 1985, soybean production will increase by more than 30%, to 2 billion bu., and that estimate seems low. Agronomists contend that they could double the soybean crop in a few years if adequate research funds for fertilizer studies and soil were available...
Agnew's supporters are quick to claim that private interests may be at stake as well, namely Richardson's own. They have an exaggerated suspicion that the Attorney General sees himself as a prime contender for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1976 and would like nothing better than to have Agnew knocked out of the running by a scandal. Agnew, his aides contend, shares some of their suspicions about the Attorney General. Richardson says that he refuses to "dignify" such assertions by replying to them. A source close to Richardson maintains that the Attorney General could not profit...