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...Newspapers outside Harvard who have been desperate for college pranks and riots jumped on the story as an unmistakably hot property. The Globe caught on right away, and United Press International followed, claiming that sales had already begun at the Union "news-stand." Then the Times converted the UPI dispatch into a judiciously subdued couple of inches--all this within two days of when the story first appeared...
...difference in networks was so slight, if the night was so brief, if the minutes of prediction were so close, why did the broadcasters dispatch so much personnel and hardware? After all, even with the unprecedented tri-network sponsorship of J.C. Penney-manifestly hoping for gilt by association-all three networks maintained their honorable tradition of losing money on the Big Night. The answer does not lie behind the screen but before it. "Every man speaks of public opinion," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion." No matter what the polls said, the viewer...
Here we are in the all too near future, when pollution is so thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...
...Question. Among major papers that announced their choices last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Los Angeles Times came out for Nixon. McGovern, said the Times, is "weakest where Mr. Nixon is strongest-in the perception of the nation's place in the world." But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch expressed its dissent, saying that McGovern "offers a philosophy of decency and compassion directed toward healing wounds and drawing the nation together. Mr. Nixon's appeal is to less noble instincts...
With best dispatch...