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...first landing on the moon made hardly a dent in the American cool. It had the aura of a TV studio fabrication; the excitement lasted about as long as a commercial. This inability to respond to the ever-increasing size of events has become the American narcotic. The highest historical moments fast disappear under the omissions of journalism, the perversions of television, and the sheer acceleration of history, and while our response to these moments is inevitably dulled, the events themselves are taking on a style and structure which laugh at any response we might happen to muster...
...nation will know if the new promises of the 1971 Southern inaugurations are kept. But they are evidence that the Congress, the courts and the 3,324,000 blacks registered to vote in the states of the old Confederacy have combined to forge a new political reality. Harry Dent, the White House overseer of the G.O.P.'s Southern strategy, conceded last week that "the race question is going bye-bye as a political force...
...jump up from the $213 billion in federal spending expected for the year ending June 30. Since Nixon last week ruled out any new federal taxes, he will probably find himself with at least the $15 billion deficit for fiscal 1972 that he needs to make a dent in unemployment. The budget figures have not yet been fixed, however. Draft chapters circulating in the OMB had blank spaces where some numbers should have been. In one, a wag wrote: " 'A few honest men are better than numbers'-Oliver Cromwell...
...talk to the men at the next stations three feet away even if there were time. There never is. Partially assembled cars move past him at the rate of 62 an hour; in less than one minute he is expected to look over each auto, pound out a dent in a fender or reweld an improperly joined seam. Cars that cannot be fixed that quickly are taken off the line. In the winter, drafts from ill-caulked windows chill Belcher's chest, while hot air blasts from rust-proofing ovens 30 feet away singe his back. After two hours...
Turning to Dent and Chotiner, Nixon instructed them to tell each local candidate to avoid name calling and to seek maximum TV exposure. "We have the Republican vote, but that isn't enough. To win, we must get the Democratic workingman. If we get him, then we can win all the races...