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...anything, such behavior has only increased the feeling among Democrats that a different figure is needed to represent the party in 1976. With increased public distrust of politicians, the nomination of an old-guard politican of the Hubert Humphrey variety would be politically risky. But so, too, would the nomination of a truly unknown candidate, like Rubin Askew. A McGovern liberal would again split the party, as would a Jackson conservative. So why not, Democrats ask, nominate a clean but experienced, pragmatic but popular, middle-of-the-road candidate? Why not nominate Edmund Muskie for President...
...refuse to run. As a Muskie staff member in Washington told The Crimson, "He is receptive to the Presidency in terms of a draft, [and] he would accept a draft." That Muskie does not seek the nomination may indeed be an asset in 1976, not only because of public distrust of politicians who lust after the Presidency, but also because faction-ridden Democrats could more easily settle on a nominee who has not alienated voters in presidential primary elections...
...says Mayer, are adding to the already strained resources of a growing number of institutions, not all of them small. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board and the bank regulating agencies are wary of tightening up too drastically for fear of causing more bank failures and intensifying public distrust of the entire financial system...
Although women may debate the practical results of merger, their passionate disagreement about the issue arises from different perceptions of the two institutions, a gut reaction over which one arouses greater distrust: Radcliffe, laden with 100 years of unrealized potential, or Harvard, with a record of 300 years of discrimination and indifference to women. Women agree that they have a long haul ahead before they'll be fully accepted into Harvard and into society as a whole; they disagree over whether they should rest their hopes with Harvard or with Radcliffe...
...gold bullion, can widespread hoarding be far behind? Certainly many investors are likely to want to lay away some gold-just in case. A recent Gallup poll indicates that the greatest demand for the yellow metal will probably come from middle-class conservatives in the Western states, where vestigial distrust of Big Government and its powers to manipulate paper money remains strongest. Yet it is far from certain that the U.S. will become a nation of goldbugs, sinking lifesavings into 24-carat bars and furtively stuffing them under the floor boards. Says Harvard University Sociologist Lee Rainwater: "Americans tend...