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...Roundtable. Edward McAteer, 53, of Memphis, former Colgate-Palmolive sales executive, aims at using this group to train leaders. He focuses on what Conservative Digest calls "pro-God, profamily, pro-America causes." The Round-table is scheduling six seminars this year, including one for 11,000 this June in the Dallas Coliseum. Says McAteer: "If people know why they need to be involved, they will find out how to be." A favorite question in interviews with candidates during the primaries: "If you were President, what would you do to change the spiritual and moral direction of the country...
...explanation for his silence: his mother (Elizabeth Norment) thinks someone lied to him; his teacher (Nancy Mayans) thinks he's ill; the principal (John Bottoms) sees it as the silence of a poet; and Mrs. Blade's lover, Chester, who seems to be a regular reader of Existential Digest, ascribes it to despair...
...have decided to stay out of government for some time ... For 14 months I have been at the vortex of the whirlpool. In all modesty, I think, after the Imam I shouldered the greatest trouble. I haven't had time to take down, digest and analyze the myriad events I have witnessed and participated in. I would like to take a breath and make this appraisal before plunging back into politics...
...Mobil, on the other hand, argue that they are not given enough opportunity in the broadcast media to present their points of view. "It's important to see to it that some views, which should be understood, are indeed brought to the public for recognition, for them to digest," says DeNigro. "It's the idea of creating dialogue," dialogue not fostered by television stations...
...Digest, in addition, produced a second allegation: when Kennedy's rented 1967 Oldsmobile approached the bridge, he had been driving at 30 to 38 m.p.h., rather than 20 m.p.h., as he testified at the inquest. It based this conclusion on computer studies conducted by an auto-safety expert. Had "a reasonably attentive driver" actually approached the bridge at 20 m.p.h. or so, the Digest asserted, he would have seen the bridge in time to brake safely to a stop. The point seems secondary; whatever Kennedy's speed that fateful night, it obviously was too fast for the washboard...