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Difficult Office. The Miami News abandoned hope: "With Senator Goldwater in command of the Republicans, the choice is between moving the country ahead with the Democrats or regressing with the Republicans." The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch banked on the possibility that Goldwater might prove too gamy for national consumption. "He arouses a certain degree of delirium among extreme conservatives," said the Post-Dispatch, "but there are not enough of them to win an election...
What those standards were the report made exhaustively clear. Every dispatch examined during the years of inquiry-billions of words in all-was meticulously measured against the commission's four hand-picked news classifications: very bad, bad, faulty and good. Hardly any got a passing score. The proportion of "scandalous lies" in correspondence that got out of the country...
...addition to their U.S. advisers, the government troops stand to receive some additional expert counsel. Last week, in line with U.S. President Johnson's recent call for "more flags" in South Viet Nam, the Philippines were negotiating to dispatch 75 Filipino special-forces troops to Saigon. Many will be veterans of Manila's successful anti-guerrilla campaign against the Communist Huks...
...profit of his male descendants. Today, there are 21 Ridders to work the chain, a figure that neatly corresponds with the number of Ridder newspapers. The papers vary in size from the Aberdeen, S. Dak., American-News (circ. 21,000) to the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (227,000 combined). But they all have one thing in common: a Herman Ridder heir at the helm...
...data board makes it possible to find out what you want to know about a building without actually going inside. In the past, if a complaint came from, say, the Biological Laboratories that rooms were overheated, Buildings and Grounds had to dispatch a North Yard Tunnel man to the Biological Laboratories in order to get readings from the relevant thermometers and pressure guages. Now, whenever he wishes, a man sitting in front of the Langdell Hall data board can find out the air temperature of the Biological Laboratories (or a great many other things about any building in the North...