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...with gratifying results. Meany's object all along was to convince the Democrats that they had better pay more attention to labor and less to the New Left. Meany made the point again last week when he said that if the Democratic presidential candidate is unacceptable?John Lindsay, for example???he might just support Nixon...
...ranks of Middle America. Nor do the nation's intellectuals, its liberals, its professors, its surgeons. Many general practitioners, though, are Middle Americans. Needless to say, Middle America offers no haven to the New Left, although Middle Americans might count a number of old leftists?unionists, for example???in their numbers. They are not extremists of the right despite the fact that some of them voted for George Wallace in 1968. They are both Republicans and Democrats; many cast their ballots for Richard Nixon, but it may be that nearly as many voted for Hubert Humphrey...
...prominent "students of American history" were asked to rate the Presidents. Eisenhower received a low "average" rating, ranking 22nd among the first 34, just above Andrew Johnson. Today he would probably receive a higher mark. The staff system he brought to the White House, for example???a target of ridicule in the late '50s and early '60s?is now seen as his valuable addition to the presidency. No President since World war II had been more resistant to the demands of the military than General Eisenhower. "We must guard," he said, "against feverish building of vast armaments to meet glibly...
...little used today) was found using copper hydroxide and ammonia, and still later came a fourth in which the final product is not cellulose but cellulose acetate. Viscose rayon leads in U. S. production; the costlier acetate rayon?of which Du Font's much publicized fabric "Acele" is an example???is second. Most industrial chemists feel that nitrocellulose rayon is technologically obsolescent if not quite obsolete. Tubize Chattilon was the only plant in the world making nitrocellulose when it ceased operations...
...supreme judiciary court of Massachusetts on the grounds that Judge Webster Thayer exhibited prejudice during the murder trial. But it was on the mercy of Governor Fuller that many a Sacco & Vanzetti sympathizer pinned his hopes. Leading U. S. newspapers, even the most conservative Foreign Journals, urged clemency. An example???the venerable Spectator in England said: "Certain facts make us feel that justice in the strict sense of the word would be truly served either by the release of the prisoners or by a further term of imprisonment the greater part of which might be taken as having been already...