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...pushed farther. Witness the NRA--for years, all it has had to do is wave its mailing lists under Congressmen's noses and support for every gun-control bill has mysteriously dried up. Labor union groups have generated support ton the most idiotic measures--witness the projectionist domestic-content bill, which even The Crimson opposes, and yet is supported by nearly every major Democratic Presidential candidate. And when Ms. Idelson refers to Ellen McCormack, the pro-lifer who ran for President, she should remember the anti-war activists who ran for elected office during the Vietnam War, and the Black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misleading Argument | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...vigilant as Patti's Secret Service men. At first, while posing for the pictures in Los Angeles, she appeared to be put down by all that glitter. "Look at my nose," she reportedly complained. "It is too long, and it wrinkles when I laugh." But she was content with the photographed results. "I'm not so bad," Davis was said to have remarked to Lichfield. "You had taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 26, 1983 | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps the threatening undertones of the movement are a function of its intensity; alone and in coalition the right to lifers have taken special interest politics to its illogical extreme. In contrast with other single issue groups the anti-abortion activists have not been content merely with lobbying. These organizations forthrightly undertook a program to pack Congress with politicians not only sympathetic to, but also actively involved in the right to life movement. In 1976, Ellen McCormack ran for President of the United States on the abortion issue...

Author: By Holls A. ldelson., | Title: Extraordinary Politicians | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

...American boat leads 3-1 in the best-of-seven content for the Cup the United States has held since the first competition 132 years ago. The fifth race is scheduled for Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/21/1983 | See Source »

...judgment of the most successful of them, Walter Cronkite of CBS, are merely "the familiarity factor, like the typography and makeup of a newspaper." After surveying last week's ballyhooed return to solo anchoring, Cronkite faulted all three networks for "working on appearance rather than substance: if the content is right, it does not matter whether there is one anchor or six." Yet when the shows are so similar, perhaps all that the networks have to sell is Brokaw's lopsided grin, Rather's riveting eyes, or Jennings' meticulously folded breast-pocket handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Three for the Money | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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